The Health Benefits of Honey
Honey is not only a tasty saccharine like substance, but also serves as a source of nutrition, noted for its medicine like properties. They include the following:
• Energy – Honey has been used as an energy source for more than 2,000 years. One tablespoon of honey contains about 65 calories and is easier to digest than cane sugar. The natural sugars that are found in honey are easily converted to glucose, which means you get energy fast.
• Weight loss – Honey combined with warm water help aid the digestion of fat. There are also many all natural weight loss supplements that contain this weight loss elixir. So feel free to add honey as a sweetener to any of your favorite low fat recipes without having to worry about excessive weight gain.
• Natural antiseptic – Honey can serve as an anti-fungal and anti-bacterial agent.
• Source of antioxidants – The nutracentical antioxidants found in honey help eliminate free radicals from your body. Honey antioxidants will also help boost your immune system.
• Skin care – If you combine honey with other key ingredients (like milk or oil) you get an amazing recipe for clear skin. Use this and you’ll knockout wrinkles and keep skin looking healthy and youthful forever!
• Helps hangovers – Honey has a sobering effect by speeding up the liver’s ability to oxidize alcohol. Make a smoothie of orange juice, yogurt, and honey and you’ll be back to your sober self in no time!
• Throat soother – The thick consistency of honey helps coat a sore throat and reduce inflammation. It can also help kill bacteria in the throat.
• Sleeping aid – Have a glass of warm milk and honey to help soothe you before bedtime. Of course an Ambien will probably work better, but if you’d like to try the all-natural route first, go with milk and honey-it tastes good too!
• Anti-allergen – To naturally immunize yourself against local allergies, eat honey from the region that’s giving you the sniffles-that is, if you live in Montgomery, Alabama and have bad allergies, eat local Montgomery honey. The pollen that was used to create the local honey will serve as antibodies against your allergies from local plants, flowers, and pollens.
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November 21st, 2009 at 9:13 am
This is really instinct. Proteins will replace and build tissues but it is the function and assignment of carbohydrates to create and replace heat and energy, and to provide what we call Honey, which contains two invert sugars, levulose and dextrose, has many advantages as a food substance.