There are medical people who will refute this and I admit that my information may be incorrect, but it is my understanding from Dr. Jarvis' writing, that honey does not
establish the same type of insulin response that refined carbohydrates do. The reason for this is that honey does not require any addiitonal processing to be used by the body whereas the same cannot be said of maple syrup, molasses, and sugar. Those sweetners all occur as the result of a reductive kind of manufactured process and in a very broad sense falls into the catagory of "processed food" which Dr. Jarvis warns against. Personally, I use honey to the total exclusion of any other type of sweetner. It is immediately absorbed by the body without additional"work"