Also, look for raw, organic honey, or at least raw honey from a trusted
vendor.
The cheaper honey used to fertilize mass crops and orchards, besides
having insecticides and fungicides, are often fed from vats of high-
fructose corn syrup during the colder months and should be carefully
avoided.
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<ideasforhealth@...> wrote:
> Honey Health Benefits:
>
> Honey is sweet and delicious produced naturally by Bees for their own
> nourishment. The bees while feasting on flowers, it sucks nectar of
> flowers and deposit the nectar in their bee hives, mixed with special
> enzymes from its `saliva. The honey is produced commercially with
> Bees and make honey is available all round the year, as this process of
> harvesting honey is known as Apiculture.
>
> Honey possess essential nutrients such as Vitamin B6, Vitamin B2 and
> minerals like sodium, manganese, and amino acids, fatty acids,
> carbohydrates, soluble and insoluble fiber and sugar, anti oxidants,
> that contribute to promote general health. Consumption of honey is safe
> for all except for the children under 12 months age. Honey is termed as
> natural antibiotic due to the presence of antimicrobial, anti fungal,
> anti viral properties. The quality of honey varies according to the
> nectar, pollen, resins collected by bees.
>
> Honey Health Benefits or nutritional benefits are, Honey is more
> helpful in preventing colon cancer due to the presence of caffeic acid
> methyl caffeate, phenylethyldimethylcaffeate and phenylethylcaffeate
> which inhibits the activity of enzymes known as lipoxygenase and
> phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C that is likely to cause
> cancer. Honey is used to provide alternative treatment, to treat cough
> and sleeplessness as it works better than the medicine called
> Dextromethorphan which is used to treat coughs.
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