Actually that's a pretty good article thank you. 🙂
I have been doing monumental amounts of research on sugars- a few years ago when I was caring f/t for my insulin resistant, diabetic mum who was dying from Bowel cancer- which in itself created a massive problem from cancer being an infection and infection causing the blood to get more 'sugary'...and then more recently last month myself when I gave up 95% of all sugars bar Fructose from my daily dairy free, breakfast fruit smoothies and started exercising for 90minutes a day to lose weight, 3months later I had lost nothing, so I went and got a full fasting blood test to note that my BGL had actually shyrocketed instead, so I then decide to give up 1 of the only 2 sugars I was consuming at that stage- which was a little bit of Raw sugar mixed in with raw cocoa powder (to go into my fruit smoothies) and so found Monkfruit sugar and apparently accoring to numerous medical websites and others, Monkfruit is by far the best.....even better than Coconut sugar.
I have been using that mixed with Stevia, but as I don't consume sugar on or in anything else and its only been a few weeks, I have not noticed any difference (certainly have not lost any weight either 😡) but I don't imagine that I will be able to see a difference until I have another fasting blood test.
Any thoughts on Monkfruit?
I honestly don't know anything about Monkfruit. I certainly have not seen it any any stores that I frequent here but then I again I don't really shop "exotic" stores. I'll have to look into it because it sounds delicious! The name sounds oddly familiar though.
Fruit smoothies can really add up with sugar. Personally I think the best way to combat high BGL is through weight training and adding muscle. Personally I have added about 40 lbs of muscle over the past decade and muscle just munches up blood sugar like a sponge! The weight training also creates insulin sensitivity and causes sugar to go to muscle cells instead of fat. Hope that helps!
Hey there @Zydane, check out this article- just one of many...https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/monk-fruit-health-benefits#the-buzz
I am thinking about your comment about muscles....I have many naturally large ones (now underneath my fat...) and at 49, I'm still very strong with a huge amount of resilience- physical and mental, but I have a rare heart condition- nothing to do with cholesterol or plaque build up, mine is https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-attack/angina-chest-pain/prinzmetals-or-prinzmetal-angina-variant-angina-and-angina-inversa and that's why I need to look after myself, lose the weight, but battle with the heart meds too....plus, I don't want to be a fat, frumpy 50ry old, I want to be one of those sexy cougars that I used to be....lol...🤣
Still chewing over your comments re: sugar and muscles ...Hmmm very interesting...thank you for the info.
I hope that mine helps too.
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It appears that the reason that I can't find it is because it goes rancid so quickly...it seems like something that should be consumed where it is grown fresh. Doesn't seem to have such a huge benefit that it would be worth it to go out of our ways to get it.
So you can but Monkfruit online at Amazon/ebay and a range of physical stores in the states such as Walmart. But its the powder not the fresh fruit (because then you'd have to dry it and powder it before use in most foods/meals anyway...)
I buy them here from my local supermarket. And our 'super'markets are tiny compared to yours ...lol...
There area few different brands about too
There's also this called just like sugar made from the Chicory Root which I found in 2017 and got it shipped to Australia from Nevada and it's not too bad, though it does have that odd after taste, but no where near as much as the synthetics do...
Very interesting...
Actually I'm not sure if you have seen this video, but its actually really good as an indication of all of the alternative sugars on the market today.