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Thursday, 24 October 2013

Importance of Honey

Honey is very rich. A kilogram of it (4 cups) is equal to 5 kilograms of milk. And it is equivalent to eating 30 pieces of bananas or 20 egg or 11.75 kg of meat, or 12 kg of green leaves. It is therefore advisable to form the habit of using honey.

Many healing properties are attributed to the use of honey. It is without doubt a very potent and natural body fuel. It contains 22 nutrients that are required by man for complete and perfect health. Honey helps fatigue and increase energy level. It is best replacement for the bleached and non-nutritious white sugar. For baking sweetened drinks, cereals, salad dressings or on toast and muffins. Wonderful for children.

The bees take the fertilizer pollen dust from the flowers of the high desert process it with natural enzymes and carry it to the hive for food.

Suggest use: Energy, hay fever and stamina. It is wonderful for a weight management programme because it helps the metabolism work faster. It gives a lot of go. Good for children at reduced dosage.

Propolis is the sticky resin secreted from the trees. Bees metabolize propolis and use it to line their hive to protect themselves against bacteria. Bee propolis is regarded as been the most effective natural antibiotic known.

It works wonder on any infection e.g shingles, asthma, abscess, pneumonia. It is an excellent and natural antibiotic that kills all germs. Bee propolis and other natural enzymes help to clean teeth, remove stains and destroy plague leaving mouth refreshed, teeth clean and sparkling, ideal for mouth ulcer and bleeding gums, freshens bad breath and kills bacteria.

Bees are known to produce Royal jelly to feed their queen hence, supplying her with nutrients for health and
long life. These same nutrients are available in original honey. These are vitamins like A, C, D and E also include vitamin B and 12 amino acids and numerous minerals. This royal jelly enhances metabolism thus increasing energy and reducing the other natural enzymes to help clean tumors, ulcer, high blood pressure, impotency and infertility, gives longevity, helps healing process (used by the queen mother of England) particularly good for menopause, and it relieve stress.

Honey provides excellent relief for burns, insect bites and minor skin irritation. It could also be use as a preperm solution to reduce perm damage. Honey is essential in all homes, schools and offices. It is great for thrush, sores, athletic foot, chicken pox, measles. (If you can use honey first, easily enough there will be no scar) boils, nappy rash, prickly heat, bumps. Grazes sunburn and eczema.

Honey is a complete preventive and restorative daily skin care programme, ideal for all skin types, it helps promote the natural occurring attributes of youth, vigor, refreshness and radiance. It emulsifies and revitalizes to help offset the hazards of time and environmental pollutants.

Warning: Honey is not good for diabetic patients.

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Types of Honey

The bee assimilates the juice of various kinds of medicinal flowers and fruits to use to form the honey which it stores in its cells of wax. The different kind of flower from which it makes its honey gives different colors to the honey, example it can be dark brown, light brown yellow, golden brown, white and so on.

The taste and flavor also varies, as in the case of healthier honey, the honey formed from scented flowers, and so on. As food it is sweet and wholesome. You can use honey to take cereals, drink pap, tea and to eat yam and bread for bakery. The best honey is the one produced during harvesting season. Because it is the season of abundant fruits, flowers etc from where the honey bees get the juices.

The second best honey is the one produced at the millet season. Then followed by the one produced in the dry season. This is because flowers are so rare in the season. Anywhere you want to buy honey please kindly test it with water. Pour water in a glass cup or bottle cork first, then pour the honey.

Monday, 21 October 2013

What is Honey?

Honey From Bee

Honey is a solid liquid that tastes naturally sweet and is produced by a small insect called Bee. It has nutritional advantage over processed sugar. Honey is an excellent source of potassium and that's why bacteria cannot survive in honey. And potassium withdraws from the bacteria the moisture which is essential to their existence thereby killing them.

For Bee to produce just a ten spoonful of the honey. It would have to suck different flowers fluids million times. And the Bee daily ups and down to produce the honey when calculated amount to a journey of 30 million kilometers.

Honey contains essential minerals such as Iron, Copper, Magnesia, Silicon, Chlorine and Calcium which are derived from the soil in which the plants grow. These minerals are then passed through the plant to the nectar which is the base substance used by the bees to make honey. It is an excellent source of vitamin. The pollen of many flowers, contain essential ingredients that almost any fruits or vegetables. This is because fruits and vegetables lose their vitamin content to a remarkable degree during storage while good honey retain it is quality no matter how long it is stored.

Components of Natural Honey

Honey has lot of natural component that make it unique from any other sugary substance. The following are the natural elements in honey.

Minerals: copper, manganese, zinc, chromatin, nickel, iodine, phosphorus, sliver, sulphur, magnesium, iron, calcium, potassium and sodium.

Carbohydrate: fructose, amitace, potase, glucose, maltose.

Acid: lactic acids, folic acid, citric acid, nicotine acid.

Vitamins: vitamin A, B2, B3, B5, B12, D3, E, K, and it also contains protein fat and oil.