It’s honey, honey. A spoonful of honey is the best sweetener out there! Yep, it’s time to expose decades of misinformation – using honey IS the best sweetener and honey is actually healthy for you – even if you’re a diabetic.
Eating a spoonful of honey every day provides many health benefits. Honey has been used for its nutritional benefits since ancient times, and raw honey can help in the treatment of many medical conditions.
We been taught to think about honey only for its “sugar” content, and that honey is made of evil carbohydrates in the form of glucose and fructose. The diet sweetener industry has spent millions of dollars to convince you not to use honey because all honey is full of sugar and will make you fat. The American Heart Association does recommend limiting added sugars to no more than 6 teaspoons (2 tablespoons) a day for women and 9 teaspoons (3 tablespoons) for men. This is easy to do using raw honey. But, there’s more to this story.
Honey (like any carbohydrate) does raise your blood sugar, but not as fast as refined sugar and not in the same way. So, a spoonful of honey is the better choice in my opinion, and this includes diabetics.
It’s important to remember that eating anything should be in moderation, and the benefits of honey doesn’t mean it’s a free pass to eating a lot of it everyday. Stay reasonable, and remember that you do have healthy sweetener choices – choices that have been proven healthy for centuries.
Do It On Your Own
I always recommend being your own food processing plant – this is why eating unprocessed foods and raw foods is so important. Your body will assimilate raw, unprocessed foods very differently from how it uses foods that have already been processed in manufacturing plants.
Your body burns calories when it digests raw foods. When you eat pre-processed foods, the break-down process has already been done, so your body has nothing to do but store the carbs and fats from the foods.
Your body can’t break down what’s already been broken down, and that means it burns less calories. Your body will burn carbs and calories when it breaks down raw foods, and organic honey contains live nutrients that stabilize your blood sugar and burn body fat.
Processed sugar will spike your blood sugar and increase body fat. Artificial sweeteners do the same thing – but worse – it’s called the Cephalic Phase Index. Not only do fake sugars trick your body to the detriment of your health, but they leave toxic chemical residues behind.
The living nutrients in raw organic honey stimulate your body’s metabolism and increase its fat-burning capability. So honey is a better choice over sugar or the artificial sweeteners in your morning coffee or iced tea.
What We Know About Honey
We’ve known that honey has been the sweetener of choice for centuries. Here are some sweet facts about honey to always remember:
- Honey is considered a rare Earth food.
- Honey is the only food that will never rot and can last 3000 years!
- Honey is loaded with live enzymes.
- Metal spoons destroy these enzymes, so always use a wooden or plastic spoon with your honey.
- Manuka honey from Australia and New Zealand is the best honey for brain health because it is made by bees that pollinate the native Australian tea tree, also known as the leptospermum scoparium bush.
- Honey has been shown to improve your memory and slow down cognitive decline.
- Propolis produced by bees is one of the most powerful natural antibiotics on Earth.
- Honey provides all the nutrients your body needs to survive, which means that you can theoretically live on honey alone!
- During famines in Africa, honey has saved many people from starvation.
- Honey has no expiration date.
- The saying “honeymoon” began when newlyweds ate honey for fertility.
- Bees live less than 40 days, yet they visit over 1,000 flowers in that time period.
- In the past, great emperors were covered in honey during burial to prevent decay in the grave.
- The healing property of honey comes from its antibacterial qualities, which can keep a wound moist.
It’s important for us to save the bees.
As bee populations drop around the world due to human activities and pesticides, let’s help protect them and give them the clean spaces they need to thrive.
If you see a bee, don’t swat at it – step out of its way and let it go about its business. Thank the bees for providing a spoonful of health.
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