If you like your morning coffee sweetened, instead of grabbing sugar, grab something else – maple syrup!
A new study shows that there are lot of health benefits to using syrup – you get antioxidants that boost immunity and help with inflammation that you don’t get from refined sugar.
You’ll also find better blood sugar levels, which can help avoid diabetes. Plus, the study found that when people switched from sugar to maple syrup, their blood pressure dropped, they lost weight and had less harmful bacteria, so their digestion improved.
But the only catch is that it needs to be real maple syrup – Log Cabin won’t cut it.
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