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I'm not sure that number is meaningful without knowing how many parents are giving their infants honey. Granted I'm in a high-income, high-education area, but at least in my bubble, "don't give babies honey" seems to be common knowledge, so it's possible there are relatively few instances and a high percentage result in complications.


I think the rate was similar before we told parents not to give their infants honey. So we sort of have an A/B comparison.

> Some people have pointed out that botulism cases haven’t fallen over time despite parents being told not to give kids honey.


Whole food crunchy Instagram grifters push that infants should eat honey

Though tbh do people really eat that much honey? I only have some in my kitchen to have with tea when I have a cold. Other then that I almost never use it.


Oh man buttered toast with honey... English muffins... But most controversially, and most deliciously, it dresses up a pizza something lovely...

For me the shift happened when I stopped thinking of it as a sweetener for liquids and started thinking about it as a condiment to deploy conservatively but frequently.


Hot honey on pizza is the BEST


The United States is the second largest honey consumer behind China according to the latest data available from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2019. In 2021, consumption increased 8 percent from the previous year. Between 1991 to 2021, the average rate of growth is 10.7 million pounds per year. This translates to about 1.9 pounds per capita of honey consumption in 2021 compared with 1.2 pounds per capita in the early 1990s.


Breakfast buns go well with honey. Often switched up with jam every few days. Also pancakes and waffles are great with honey from time to time when I'm tired of maple syrup. Jam works too.


Yes. I literally collect different honey (including from my own hives) and my love of it is very strong.

And no, I don’t have diabetes yet. I’m not insane about it, but I do have it frequently.


(Diabetes isn't caused by sugar intake.)


Not directly, no. But indirectly, by increasing weight gain and eventual metabolic syndrome, if eaten in excess… which was my point :)


Type 1 isn't caused by any of this stuff. Type 2 is caused by excess body fat -- consuming too many calories in total over a long period of time. It doesn't matter what the composition of those calories is. You can eat mostly sugar, at maintenance levels, and never be at risk for T2D.


No honey with greek yoghurt?




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