Study from 2014 - Honey helps against cardio vascular deceases?

In Norway, best-selling diet books author Berit Nordstrand, promotes honey as beneficial for all sorts of ailments: For weight loss, against ulcers and against diabetes, to name a few statements I am aware of. She recommends switching regular sugar with honey. For the diabetes, she shows to a single study from 2014:


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Quote:

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.

My critical spider sense is tingling.. From what I gathered there has not been much research on this topic, aside from this single small scale study from an Iranian university, printed in an unknown (pay-to-play?) Iranian journal, with an impact factor of about 0,3.

So, I am asking is the study legit? (I am a lawyer, not a scientists) Or am I being overly critical to these scientist? Plus, this probably doesn't cause direct harm?

If nothing else, the science brains on the forum could see this as an opportunity to educate me and others on how to critically read a scientific study :) All thoughts are welcome.

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