Our ancestors ate a Paleo diet and it had carbs

Re:Our ancestors ate a Paleo diet and it had carbs by whiddershins on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:11AM (#33047170)

Honey and table sugar are not the same. In honey the fructose and glucose are side by side but not chemically joined (monosaccharides) in sucrose they are joined together (disaccharide) these require different gut bacteria to break down and can plausibly have different biological effects when consumed.

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Re:Our ancestors ate a Paleo diet and it had carbs by crazygringo on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:25AM (#33047259)

But honey and HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup) ARE the same, for all practical purposes nutritionally. Honey is basically concentrated Coca-Cola.

And HFCS is popularly demonized even more than sugar is... so I'm not sure what your point is.

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Re:Our ancestors ate a Paleo diet and it had carbs by mementomorti on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:36AM (#33047359)

What about other stuff in honey, such as microbiome content?

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Re:Our ancestors ate a Paleo diet and it had carbs by SamoyedFurFluff on Saturday October 01, 2022 @12:55PM (#33048024)

Genuinely confused here: honey has antimicrobial properties. What micro biome content??

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Re:Our ancestors ate a Paleo diet and it had carbs by jdhn on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:16AM (#33047200)

I take it that having the fructose and glucose side by side is OK, but with sucrose being joined together that's bad?

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Re:Our ancestors ate a Paleo diet and it had carbs by whiddershins on Saturday October 01, 2022 @12:18PM (#33047716)

For some people. In theory.

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