The WONDERS of HONEY!

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Discover the health benefits of one of the oldest sweeteners on earth, plus some interesting trivia, some great recipes and a few cautions.

Bees swallow, digest and regurgitate nectar to make honey; this nectar contains almost 600 compounds. We need our bees, so let’s do everything we can to save them and keep them here on this earth.

Honey is so good we have included it in our list of powerfoods that should be in your kitchen right now.

“My son, eat thou honey, for it is good” — King Solomon – Proverbs: 24:13

Health Benefits:

1. Prevent cancer and heart disease:
Honey contains flavonoids, antioxidants which help reduce the risk of some cancers and heart disease.

2. Reduce ulcers and other gastrointestinal disorders.
Recent research shows that honey treatment may help disorders such as ulcers and bacterial gastroenteritis. This may be related to the 3rd benefit…

3. Anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-fungal:
“All honey is antibacterial, because the bees add an enzyme that makes hydrogen peroxide,” said Peter Molan, director of the Honey Research Unit at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

4. Increase athletic performance.
Ancient Olympic athletes would eat honey and dried figs to enhance their performance. This has now been verified with modern studies, showing that it is superior in maintaining glycogen levels and improving recovery time than other sweeteners.

5. Reduce cough and throat irritation:
Honey helps with coughs, particularly buckwheat honey. In a study of 110 children, a single dose of buckwheat honey was just as effective as a single dose of dextromethorphan in relieving nocturnal cough and allowing proper sleep.

6. Balance the 5 elements:
Honey has been used in ayurvedic medicine in India for at least 4000 years and is considered to affect all three of the body’s primitive material imbalances positively. It is also said to be useful useful in improving eyesight, weight loss, curing impotence and premature ejaculation, urinary tract disorders, bronchial asthma, diarrhea, and nausea.

Honey is referred as “Yogavahi” since it has a quality of penetrating the deepest tissues of the body. When honey is used with other herbal preparations, it enhances the medicinal qualities of those preparations and also helps them to reach the deeper tissues.

7. Blood sugar regulation:
Even though honey contains simple sugars, it is NOT the same as white sugar or artificial sweeteners. Its exact combination of fructose and glucose actually helps the body regulate blood sugar levels. Some honeys have a low hypoglycemic index, so they don’t jolt your blood sugar. Watch this video Sweetener Comparison where I compare stevia, brown rice syrup, honey, molasses and agave, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each.)

[link to realfoodforlife.com]

It also goes good with a person's naked bits. MMmmm, delicious.

I thought all sugars were poison, even natural sugar.

Oh wait, was it legumes and grains that were poison?

Actually I think it was meat. No, it was honey, as evidenced by not being able to give it to children.

Wait it's dairy. Hold on our ancestors didn't eat that crap.

They ate berries and occasional meat...maybe some wild scallion type deal, and bamboo.

Screw it. I don't care what people say about foods anymore. All of it is contradicted/debunked wholesale, and nobody knows what to believe anymore.

I thought all sugars were poison, even natural sugar.

Oh wait, was it legumes and grains that were poison?

Actually I think it was meat. No, it was honey, as evidenced by not being able to give it to children.

Wait it's dairy. Hold on our ancestors didn't eat that crap.

They ate berries and occasional meat...maybe some wild scallion type deal, and bamboo.

Screw it. I don't care what people say about foods anymore. All of it is contradicted/debunked wholesale, and nobody knows what to believe anymore.

man made fake food like trans fat and white sugar are bad for you

natural organic foods are good for you when eaten in a healthy blanced way

Most honey is pure toxic garbage.

Why ?

Because they feed the bees sugar, just a few meters from the hive.

So there's not much flowers involved in healthy substances, taste and smell.

So they add those to the sugar.

Then, most honey gets heated.

Then, they put it in a transparent jar, so UV radiation robs the benefits.

Honey is full of sugar, especially fructose, which makes you age much fast, makes you fat, bad skin and a fatty liver.

The only good honey is raw, unheated Manuka honey from New Zealand, stored in a brown glass container.

Good Luck.

Most honey is pure toxic garbage.

Why ?

Because they feed the bees sugar, just a few meters from the hive.

So there's not much flowers involved in healthy substances, taste and smell.

So they add those to the sugar.

Then, most honey gets heated.

Then, they put it in a transparent jar, so UV radiation robs the benefits.

Honey is full of sugar, especially fructose, which makes you age much fast, makes you fat, bad skin and a fatty liver.

The only good honey is raw, unheated Manuka honey from New Zealand, stored in a brown glass container.

Good Luck.

raw honey..............go raw

I thought all sugars were poison, even natural sugar.

Oh wait, was it legumes and grains that were poison?

Actually I think it was meat. No, it was honey, as evidenced by not being able to give it to children.

Wait it's dairy. Hold on our ancestors didn't eat that crap.

They ate berries and occasional meat...maybe some wild scallion type deal, and bamboo.

Screw it. I don't care what people say about foods anymore. All of it is contradicted/debunked wholesale, and nobody knows what to believe anymore.

and it taste Mmmm Mmmmm Good :)

I thought all sugars were poison, even natural sugar.

Oh wait, was it legumes and grains that were poison?

Actually I think it was meat. No, it was honey, as evidenced by not being able to give it to children.

Wait it's dairy. Hold on our ancestors didn't eat that crap.

They ate berries and occasional meat...maybe some wild scallion type deal, and bamboo.

Screw it. I don't care what people say about foods anymore. All of it is contradicted/debunked wholesale, and nobody knows what to believe anymore.

There's at least one ancient Egyptian hieroglyph that shows a guy collecting honey from a bee hive. Pretty cool. Ah, here it is...

[link to www.reshafim.org.il]

But isn't honey bee vomit? That's what I heard, and I'm too lazy to look it up.