Benefits Of Honey

Honey is one of the greatest gifts of nature, produced by bees using nectar from beautiful flowers. Many people don’t know that honey contains a verity of sugar and minerals. Honey is used in various foods and beverages as flavoring and sweetening agent. Few years ago researches are not sure about why honey heals but now they are learning new things about honey every day, as research shows that honey is a blessing for all human beings.

Types of honey bees

Honey Bee:

Size: ½ to ¾ inches

Life span: 4 months in winter and 6 weeks in summer

Honey bees create 20 to 80 pounds honey. Honey bees die shortly after stinging a person.

Bumble bee:

Size: ¾ inch ½ inches

Life span: 4 weeks

They are efficient pollinators of plants and crops. They defend their live aggressively and are capable to sting multiple times. They are found in ground cavities and under roof shades

Carpenter bee:

Size: 0.75 to 1 Inch

Life span: not more than 1 year

Male carpenter bees do not sting and are solid in black color. They live alone by borrowing holes into woods patio, covers, eaves and other places

Africanized honey bee (killer bees):

Size: ½ inch

Life Span: 5 to 10 weeks and queen of Africanized honey bee live for 1 to 3 years

They were more excitable and defensive than other bees. They are very aggressive and protective of their home and attack in large numbers.

Stingless bee:

Size: 2 mm to 13 mm

They are found in tropical areas. Stingless bees have no sting so they defend themselves by biting. They rest in tree branches, trunks and in ground cavities.

Here are some healthy benefits of honey:

Honey is delicious and packed with minerals like iron and calcium, chlorine, potassium and magnesium. Honey has powerful antiseptic, antibacterial and healing properties. Honey helps to treat many common health problems.

Boosts Your Energy:

Honey can instantly boost your energy level, due to the natural sugar of honey; honey provides a healthy source of calories and energy. Whenever your body feels low, and it can easily fight with low energy, and makes you feel fresh and healthy. So let’s add honey into your regular life, now you have a natural of simple sugar and carbohydrates to an all ready proven energy booster.

Detoxification:

Honey and warm water helps you to flush out all the toxins from your body. by using this remedy regularly, it will make your body clean, add lemon into this remedy, it will increase urination, dispelling toxins more frequently and keeping your urinary tract healthy. Lemon contains citric acid, which helps to maximize enzyme function and in turn simulate the liver and help with detoxification.

 Regulates your blood sugar:

Honey is sweet, but those who suffers from diabetes, can still enjoy it without any problem, infect honey can help to regulate your sugar level, due to the combination of glucose and fructose. Those people who have diabetic problem can use low hypoglycemic honey, so you can consume low diabetic honey that will not spike your sugar level fast.

Treats your cough:

Several studies prove that honey is more effective home remedy for cough. Honey is an alternate solution rather than medicine, it has strong antibacterial properties that help to relieve sore throats and kill the bacteria that cause the infection.

Heals wounds and cut:

Honey has natural antibacterial and antiseptic properties. These properties help you to clean the wounds and cut without any infection. Honey can have an ability to heals your wounds quickly.

Heals minor burns:

You can also use honey to treat minor burns effectively, its antibacterial and antifungal properties can prevent bacterial growth and the antimicrobial infection prevents the infection.

Help with insomnia:

Many people face trouble while sleeping, honey is a simple solution for this problem, honey I a fat digestion carbohydrate that simulates the release of insulin and allow tryptophan to enter the brain easily. tryptophan is an compound that’s makes us sleepy, simply just take a glass of warm milk with honey before going to the bed, both honey and milk are tryptophan containing foods.

Reduce Allergies:

By using raw and local honey you help to familiarize your body to the pollens of your area. Honey will help you to reduce susceptibility to environmental allergies.

Good for skin:

Due to these antimicrobial and antifungal properties, honey is the ultimate ingredients to use for making your skin glowing and healthy. Honey can also be used to treat skin conditions like eczema and ringworm.

Reduce weight:

Honey contains vitamins, minerals and amino acid, all these elements work together to promote fat and cholesterol metabolism, which helps you to maintain your body weight and prevent obesity. Drinking water and honey helps you to reduce weight.

Improves digestion:

Honey is an effective antimicrobial agent, that will provide benefit the entire digestive tract. The enzyme glucose oxidizes that’s present in honey. It can also produce small amount of hydrogen peroxide that can help treat gastritis, honey also neutralizes gas which often occurs due to overeating.

Protect against dryness:

Honey is not only healthy; it is very beneficial for your skin also. Honey contains superb qualities that help to maintain your skin soft and elastic. It is also protect against dryness and many skin problems. Apply honey on your dry skin and do massages regularly for one weak then see the result.

Protect from sunburn:

Honey has natural antioxidant powers which can protect your skin from harmful from ultraviolet rays of the sun, which can cause sun damage, honey works as a sunscreen for your skin.

Improve skin complexion:

Honey helps to improve skin complexion and skin hydration, as it contains vitamins which are important to maintain skin softness, it provides effective moisture to your skin and it will clean your skin perfectly.

Good for hair:

Honey is full of nutrients and antioxidants, which help to promote hair growth and it helps to prevent dry and damaged hair. A good hair care can be done by using honey regularly. You can apply a mixture of honey by adding 3 tablespoons olive oil on your hair for about 30 minutes because honey contains softening properties which help to make your hair conditioned. It will give you a fruit full result.

Summarizing the Topic:

In the end I would like to suggest everyone that honey is a pretty amazing substance and it is a gift of nature so take advantage from this. Honey contains a lot off benefits. Honey is a substitute of sugar in better ways. Honey is also used for a verity of medicinal and cosmetic purposes. History proves that honey was used in cooking. The healing power of honey is unbelievable. Latest research shows that some researchers are planning to use honey for faster recovery of cancer patients after surgery. So it is very beneficial for all human beings.

“Honey is nature’s best medicine

Whenever someone offers you honey as present

Accept it”