Honey is a sweet, thick sugary solution made by bees. The composition of honey consists of varying proportions of fructose, glucose, water, oil and special enzymes produced by bees.
Honey was commonly known as a natural sweetener derived or made from flower nectar collected by bees from various kind of flowers. The first step in making honey begins when field bees fly from flower to flower collecting the sweet juices or nectar that a flower provide with their tongues. The field bees suck out nectar and store it in sacs within their bodies. After filling their sacs with these sweet juices, the field bees fly back to their bee hive and regurgitate the stored nectar into the mouth of house bees.
These house bees are assigned the job of adding enzymes from their bodies to the nectar into honey. Lastly the nectar is stored in a cell of a honey comb. Over time, the nectar ripens and becomes HONEY.
IMPORTANCE OF HONEY
• Honey provides the energy needed for blood formation and also helps to clean the blood.
• Honey gives protection against capillary problems and arteriosis.
• Honey also aids in treating diarrhea by helping the absorption of electrohytes and water and can inhibit elchersil celi bacteria that cause diarrhea.
• Honey cam help to heal stomach wounds and protects from risk of gastric irritation caused by the consumption of alcohol and certain medications.
• Honey attracts water content of wounds making wounds dry quickly so it can help speed wounds healing.
• Antimicrobial properties of honey may help to inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungi which cause infections in wounds.
• There are also people who use honey in order to strengthen their sperm counts. Honey taken before bed has great nourishing effects.
• Honey helps in smothering skin, healthier treatment of hair disease, cancer, abdominal pain, elimination of breathe odour and absorption of calcium.
Additionally a test by Dr. P.E. Meesen showed that the effect of honey in the diet makes children grow faster, remain healthier, weigh heavier , increase haemoglobin level and aids sharper intellect.
This was the result of his experiment when he divided the children in an orphanage into two groups, feeding one with a particular diet plus honey for a given period. The two groups were subjected to clinical tests before and after the experiment with amazing positive results from honey group. Honey is good. Take honey!
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