The Effect of Honey Consumption Compared with Sucrose on Blood Pressure and Fasting Blood Glucose in Healthy Young Subjects
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Background: Several studies have shown that honey consumption can have beneficial effects on cardiovascular disease indicators. This study aimed to assess the effect of honey consumption compared with sucrose on fasting blood glucose and blood pressure among young healthy subjects.
Methods: Sixty healthy subjects, aged 18 to 30 years, enrolled to this double blind randomized trial for one month. Participants assigned randomly to honey (received 70 gram honey per day) and sucrose (received 70 gram sucrose per day) groups. Systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) were measured and fasting blood sugar was collected from all participants in the beginning and end of study.
Results: In this trial, the baseline FBS, SBP and DBP were not different between honey and sucrose groups (P > 0.3). We found that consumption of honey can decrease the FBS in healthy young subjects, but intake of sucrose increase it. Moreover, reduction of the FBS in honey group was significant than sucrose group (P < 0.001). Honey and sucrose consumption cannot decrease the SBP and DBP, significantly (P > 0.4). In all of these analyses, confounding variable including age, physical activity and some nutrient intake were adjusted.
Conclusion: Honey consumption can decrease the FBS, but has no effect on SBP and DBP. Further studies are needed to confirm our findings.
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