Honey
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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Honey is sweet – that’s a given. But did you know that honey also adds a special touch to almost any recipe? It’s the whisper at a party. It’s the sigh after the perfect bite. It’s the nostalgic feeling of childhood. It’s your secret ingredient with endless possibilities.
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Natures Energy Food
Honey is a source of carbohydrates, providing 17 grams per tablespoon, which makes it ideal for your working muscles since carbohydrates are the primary fuel the body uses for energy. Carbohydrates are necessary in the diet to help maintain muscle glycogen, also known as stored carbohydrates, which are the most important fuel source for athletes to help them keep going.
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Natures Energy Food
Pre-exercise: For years, sports nutritionists have recommended eating carbohydrates before an athletic activity for an added energy boost. As with many carbohydrates, pure honey may be an effective form to ingest just prior to exercise. When honey is eaten before a workout or athletic activity, it is released into the system at a steady rate throughout the event.
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Natures Energy Food
During Exercise: Consuming carbohydrates, such as honey, during a workout helps your muscles stay nourished longer and delays fatigue, versus not using any aid or supplement. Next time you reach for a simple bottle of water, add some honey to it – it might give you that much-needed athletic boost!
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Natures Energy Food
Post-exercise: An optimal recovery plan is essential for any athlete. Research shows that ingesting a combination of carbohydrates and protein immediately following exercise (within 30 minutes) is ideal to refuel and decrease delayed-onset muscle soreness. Therefore, honey is a great source of carbohydrate to combine with post-workout protein supplements. In addition to promoting muscle recuperation and glycogen restoration, carb-protein combinations sustain favorable blood sugar concentrations after training.
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Natures Skin Care
Manufacturers have used honey in everything from hand lotions and moisturizers to bar soaps and bubble baths. One reason they use honey is for its wholesome, all-natural image; more and more consumers are demanding cosmetics and personal care products made from natural ingredients. In the case of honey, however, image is just the beginning.
First, honey is a humectant, which means it attracts and retains moisture. This makes honey a natural fit in a variety of moisturizing products including cleansers, creams, shampoos and conditioners.
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Natures Cough Suppressant
Honey has been used for centuries to help alleviate some of the symptoms associated with a common cold. According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, many things can cause a sore throat. These include infections with viruses, such as colds and flu; sinus drainage; allergies; or cigarette smoking, among others. Sore throats caused by bacteria such as streptococci, are usually treated with antibiotics. Always check with your doctor if you have a fever, or if symptoms continue for more than a few days.
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Natures Cough Suppressant
Time is the most important healer of sore throats caused by viruses, but for relief of the irritating symptoms, try a spoonful of honey to soothe and coat your throat. Take a spoonful straight, as often as you need, to relieve the irritation. In between, keep up your liquids with a steaming cup of tea sweetened with honey. For added vitamin C, try mixing in orange, grapefruit or lemon juice.
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Natures Cough Suppressant
A 2007 study by a Penn State College of Medicine research team found that honey may offer parents an effective alternative to over-the-counter cough medicine. The study found that a small dose of buckwheat honey given before bedtime provided better relief of nighttime cough and sleep difficulty in children than no treatment or dextromethorphan (DM), a cough suppressant found in many over-the-counter cold medications.
Be aware, of course, that honey should not be fed to infants under one year of age. Honey is a safe and wholesome food for older children and adults.
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Facts about Honey/Bees
There are over 25,000 species of bees worldwide.
A typical Bee colony consists of 30,000 to 60,000 bees.
The average honey bee's wings flap over 183 times per second.
Honey is the ONLY food source produced by an insect that humans eat.
Honey bees have five eyes.
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Facts about Honey/Bees
Bees have been producing honey for at least 150 million years.
Europeans brought the European Honeybee to America in 1638. The Native Americans referred to the honeybee as the "White Man's Flies," because wild swarms always preceded the arrival of the white man.
Bees must visit approximately 2 million flowers to make 1 lb. of honey.
Two tablespoons of honey would fuel a honey bee flying once around the world.
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Facts about Honey/Bees
Honey is one of the few foods that can be cleaned off clothes with only warm water.
Pure honey is germ free.
Pure honey is pre-digested, which means when eaten it goes right into your bloodstream for instant energy.
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Few Facts about Honey/Bees
Honey stored in air tight containers never spoils. Sealed honey vats found in King Tut's tomb still contained edible honey, despite over 2,000 years beneath the sands!
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Resources
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"Honey." Nature’s Skin Care. National Honey Board, 8 Aug. 2002. Web. 12 May 2014. .
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Resources
"Honey Thing: Fun Facts about Honey & Honey Bees." Honey Thing: Fun Facts about Honey & Honey Bees. HoneyThing , 1 Jan. 2008. Web. 12 May 2014. .
Samson, John . "Facts About Pure Honey." Facts About Pure Honey. Captain John R. Samson, 1 Jan. 2003. Web. 12 May 2014. .
Samson, John . "Facts About Pure Honey." Facts About Pure Honey. Captain John R. Samson, 1 Jan. 2003. Web. 12 May 2014.
