HEALTH - Amazing Facts About Honey

1. Honey is the only non man-made sweetener which also is considered to
   have healing effects.

2. Honey has a pH level around 3-4 and consists of roughly 18% water.
   Because of this honey is a very stable substance and can last hundreds of
   years if properly stored.

3. Honey can reduce fat deposits found in our cardiovascular system.

4. Honey will not ferment in your stomach like refined table sugar or sucrose
   does. Because of this it does not subject you to a risk of bacterial
   infection.

5. Honey is the simplest possible molecular form of sugar, which cannot be
   broken down any further. This allows it to travel directly from the small
   intestine to the blood stream while not causing any problems to the
   digestive system like sucrose.

6. Honey is a top choice as fuel for burning body fat during sleep since it
   has an equal ratio of fructose to glucose.

7. Honey is the best substance to use to treat burns. Honey can effectively
   subdue pain while quickly healing a wound without scarring.

8. Vitamins as well as antioxidants are found in honey. One special
   antioxidant known as ‘pinocembrin’ is found only in honey.

9. Honey is known to be a very effective and safe solution to children’s
   coughs, even more so than over-the-counter medicines.

10. Some recent studies have shown that athletes who consumed honey
     before and after physical activity have recovered faster than those
     athletes who did not consume any honey at all.

Given your new found knowledge of honey, now hopefully you can use it’s health benefits to your advantage. Keep in mind, the more natural the honey, the better. The honey found at your local fast-food chain is not going to give you the same health benefits as fresh natural honey straight from the bees nest. Start adding small amounts of natural honey to your meals to enjoy the health benefits it can offer you.

Author: Matt Boraz
www.associatedcontent.com

1. The honey bee has been around for millions of years.

2. Honey bees, scientifically also known as Apis mellifera, are environmentally friendly and are vital     aspollinators.

3. It is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.

4. Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, includingenzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water; and it's the only food that contains "pinocembrin", anantioxidant associated with improved brain functioning.

5. Honey bees have 6 legs, 2 compound eyes made up of thousands of tiny lenses (one on each side of the head), 3 simple eyes on the top of the head, 2 pairs of wings, a nectar pouch, and a stomach.

6. Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors, compared with only 62 in fruit flies and 79 in mosquitoes. Their exceptional olfactory abilities include kin recognition signals, social communication within the hive, and odor recognition for finding food. Their sense of smell was so precise that it could differentiate hundreds of different floral varieties and tell whether a flower carried pollen or nectar from metres away.

7. The honey bee's wings stroke incredibly fast, about 200 beats per second, thus making their famous, distinctive buzz. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.

8. The average worker bee produces about 1/12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.

9. A hive of bees will fly 90,000 miles, the equivalent of three orbits around the earth to collect 1 kg of honey.

10. It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.

11. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.

12. The bee's brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame seed, yet it has remarkable capacity to learn and remember things and is able to make complex calculations on distance travelled and foraging efficiency.

13. A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honeybees and one queen. Worker honey bees are female, live for about 6 weeks and do all the work.

14. The queen bee can live up to 5 years and is the only bee that lays eggs. She is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, and lays up to 2500 eggs per day. Click here to learn more about the Honey Bee Life Cycle,

15. Larger than the worker bees, the male honey bees (also called drones), have no stinger and do no work at all. All they do is mating.

16. Each honey bee colony has a unique odour for members' identification.

17. Only worker bees sting, and only if they feel threatened and they die once they sting. Queens have a stinger, but they don't leave the hive to help defend it.

18. It is estimated that 1100 honey bee stings are required to be fatal.

19. Honey bees communicate with one another by "dancing".

20. During winter, honey bees feed on the honey they collected during the warmer months. They form a tight cluster in their hive to keep the queen and themselves warm.The more I learnt about honey bee facts; honey's great creator -the honey bee itself, its highly organized society, how it acts with such intricate cooperation, and the various bee products, the more I admire and respect this amazing creature. It is no wonder why sometimes the colony is called a superorganism.

"Unique among all God's creatures, only the honeybee improves the environment and preys not on any other species." ~ Royden Brown

"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live?" ~ Albert Einstein

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FACTS ABOUT PURE HONEY 

Pure Honey: It's delicious, it has a rich full bodied taste. It reminds some people of soft candy.It can be eaten out of a container as a snack. It adds body to bread, spices different meats with juiciness, layers desserts with goodness, the versatility is nothing short of amazing. When it is used as an ingredient, it completely changes the density, taste, and chewiness of the item. For instance, eating a cake made with sugar is quite a different culinary experience from eating a cake made with Pure Honey.

 

Pure Honey: The taste is different from other foods. Nothing else quite tastes like Pure Honey. No other substance is so viscose yet digestible; sweet yet not cloying; liquid yet so dense. Nothing else is quite so sustaining yet not overfilling. Compared to other foods, candy is great but after awhile all chocolate is more or less the same. All pastries taste doughy so that if you closed your eyes you couldn't tell whether you were eating a donut or a piece of pie crust. Crackers, chips, anything crispy has the textural crunchiness but none of these food stuffs taste remotely like Pure Honey.

Pure Honey: Varies in taste depending on location, time and the bees. Steak is delicious but one steak goes down pretty much the same as the next. Peanut butter if nifty but a scoop of Skippy will eternally be identical to any other scoop of Skippy. Not so with Pure Honey. Often containers of two different years have their own subtle variations. Moreover, there are all sorts of regional subtleties, of course we are talking about pure local honey, not supermarket "batched" or "pasturized" varieties. The overall variety is truly remarkable. Colour ranges from clear translucent amber to dense like molasses. One container smells like strawberries while another has the smell of oranges or camomile tea. A spoonful of one Pure Honey is dense and thick while another is liquidy and runny. One Pure Honey tastes intense, heavy, how marvellous that every container is a surprise.

Pure Honey: Is good for you, it is healthy on many levels. First, it is good to eat. It is an unprocessed food, which Pure Honey certainly is. Second, it is good to consume. It is a food which digests easily and naturally, this is because Pure Honey is composed primarily of simple and natural sugars without additives, preservatives or chemicals. Pure Honey is healthy inducing because locally produced Pure Honey contains the pollen of local flowers, ingesting the substance may help lessen the effect of allergies. It also helps accustom the body to the local environment.

Pure Honey: Helps in the battle against the bulge. Because it is so dense nobody would binge out on Pure Honey. For instance, a large orange has the equivalent of eight teaspoons of Pure Honey sugar-wise. Nobody thinks twice about eating an orange or two, but have you ever seen anyone eating eight teaspoons of Pure Honey out of a container at any one time. Another example, whenever a "diabetic" has a sugar glucose problem any doctor will recommend a glass of orange juice with granulated sugar to bring his or her sugar level up again. Take notice no doctor ever recommends to give them Pure Honey because Pure Honey is not as sweet as it leads you to believe. The marvellous taste of Pure Honey, "What a blessing."

Pure Honey: A small amount goes a long way. Compare this to sugar or sugar products which seem to trigger the appetite. Eat a sugar-based cake and you want another piece, but eat a cake made of Pure Honey and you are quickly full and feel you have had enough. For all these reasons Pure Honey is the most perfectly balanced food you could possibly eat.

Pure Honey: The food that does not break down. Leave an egg out for a couple of days and it can go bad. Do not refrigerate meat and soon it will spoil. If you leave a once opened jar of jam on the pantry shelf, mold will form in a couple of days. Canned fruit in an open bowl will turn green and mold in a short while. Potato chips become stale overnight. But Pure Honey is the one product that retains its flavor for several months or even years. The bees concentrate flower nectar and add enzymes to the nectar to turn it into Pure Honey. Keep a jar on the pantry for ten years and it is still edible. Leave a jar of Pure Honey out on a picnic table in the sweltering heat and it will be fine the next day or next week. Freeze it in the freezer for a month and take it out, put it in a "hot bath" overnight and it is as good as it was before, back to the natural liquid form the bees had left it. Truly amazing.

Pure Honey: It is attractive. Maple syrup has a mellow woody taste, but no one ever sits and stares at the sap. But steady users find Pure Honey visually intriguing. Some people love to stare at the golden fluid in a container, it seems mysterious, as if one could look inside and know the secret of life. Jiggle the container and bubbles rise to the top like a submarine rising to the surface. Let Pure Honey drip off a wooden swirler, and it descents slow-motion down an invisible line, twist the swirler and the rope stops mid-motion and returns to the ball. Pour Pure Honey into a bowl and it forms a layered pyramid whose base keeps dissolving into the pool. Truly fascinating.

Pure Honey: It cleans very easily. If chocolate melts in your shirt pocket a brown stain forms. If it is a nice shirt you will have to dry-clean the shirt. If marshmallow fluff gets into your hair it takes a long time to get the gunk removed. If ice cream drips on your arm, the skin will feel sticky all day. But Pure Honey is biodegradable with warm water. It breaks down when warm water is applied so that it lifts off easily and eliminates all of these problems. This is all the more amazing because Pure Honey is so dense and sticky. After wiping a counter with a sponge the surface feels and looks like new. Pure Honey makes the homemakers very happy. Pure Honey, nothing quite like it.

Pure Honey: It's an amazing medicine. For many ailments that taste wonderful. Even small children love the taste of Pure Honey. It's a booster for a large number of recipes. In any recipe that calls for granulated sugar you can substitute with Pure Honey. Simple use less amounts ofPure Honey. Your taste buds will let you decide when you have reached the amount you are happy with. 3/4 cup of Pure Honey = 1 cup of sugar as a rule of thumb. However, depending on where the bees are foraging you may want to add a little or subtract a little, it really depends on each individual. Pure Honey, nature's gold.

• Pure Honey is GERM FREE and has many HEALING PROPERTIES.
• Pure Honey is PURE and ANTISEPTIC.
• Historians have said almost all Egyptian MEDICINES contained Pure Honey.
• When EATEN daily, Pure Honey will reduce your body's susceptibility to, and cure, INFECTIONS.
• Pure Honey is used to heal OPEN WOUNDS, BURNS, PINK EYE, BLISTERS, SORES, skin and scalp IRRITATIONS. (APPLY DIRECTLY)
• Pure Honey heals BLISTERED EYELIDS caused by wearing contact lenses (APPLY 1 DROP DIRECTLY TO EYE).
• Pure Honey counteracts and stops the ITCHING from insect bites and poisonous plants (APPLY DIRECTLY)
• Pure Honey has been recognized as a cure for MALNUTRITION, OLD AGE, INSANITY, STOMACH DISORDERS and NERVE DISORDERS. (Recommended: EAT 3 TIMES A DAY).
• Pure Honey soothes and relieves a SORE THROAT, and is especially effective when the honeycomb is chewed. The small amount of honeycomb swallowed as it is chewed will coat a sore throat with relief! (DO NOT SWALLOW A BALL OF HONEYCOMB)
• People who eat Pure Honey daily have fewer COLDS and seldom have the FLU infection. (EAT DAILY BY THE TEASPOON OR ON FOOD OR IN DRINK, 3 TIMES A DAY).
• Many doctors recommend EQUAL PARTS of Pure Honey, lemon and whiskey as an extremely effective COUGH SYRUP.
• Pure Honey can be used as an antiseptic in any CAVITY in the human body. (APPLY DIRECTLY, COVER).
• Because of Pure Honey's fructose content, many claim it is a CURE for a hangover. (Recommended: EAT 3 TABLESPOONS).
• OVER THE CENTURIES, Pure Honey has been one of many cures which, if nothing else, did not make the patient worse than before he took the "medicine."
• Pure Honey is pre-digested. When eaten, Pure Honey's simple sugars are absorbed directly into your body's bloodstream for INSTANT ENERGY.
• Pure Honey contained some of EVERY NUTRIENT required to MAINTAIN GOOD HEALTH.
• Pure Honey is FAT FREE, SODIUM FREE and has NO CHOLESTEROL!
• Babies and Pure Honey. Pure Honey is not recommended for infants under one year of age. Pure Honey is a safe and wholesome food for older children and adults.