Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

Mercola Fan — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:34:25 GMT

I personally use RAW honey (local of course) especially during allergy season. My studies have led me to understand that the benefits of raw honey are numerous. However.. I have a book here that does not support the use of honey. I offer this IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERESTING CONVERSATION for your comment.

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"Honey must not be used internally at any time. It is manufactured from the nectar picked up from the flowers by the bees- good enough in itself purhaps- then predigested, vomited and stored for their own future use... It has many detrimental effects for the human being.....The great value attributed to honey is delusive...honey is only a little less empty and more dangerous than sugar.

Just as with alcohol, honey, being pre-digested, enters the blood directly, raising the sugar content very rapidly above normal...."

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

Debrah — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:19:02 GMT

i thought I would share with you my favorite treat when i am having a sweet craving: I don't measure just kindof eye it--about 3 tablesoons of almond butter(I grind my own so it is fresh), with about 1 Tbls of raw honey, add a couple of squares of really dark chocolate melt it all together and let cool enough to handle then roll in little balls and roll in grated coconut. You can also add other dried fruits or nuts/seeds as you like, or brown rice crispy cereal for a crispy texture. You could also add bee pollen. I love to have these when I travel --I am less likely to succomb to temptation of candy bars in the gas stations. You can double or triple the amounts to make for a party or travel. Take to a halloween or fall harvest party--no one will guess they are good for them. Debrah

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

kouma2001 — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:32:15 GMT

I haven’t read Dr. Mercola’s Sweet Deception but in this article he claims that bee keepers “forcefeed with HFSC or other sugars” so that “the bees can produce honey year-round”. Then we read in the comment sections that the practice of giving artificial food (some form of sugar) to bees so that they survive the winter is common. And there seem some measures to make sure that the honey that they sell doesn’t include the honey/ sugar mixture from the winter harvest.

If what the farmers are saying is true, don’t you think the expression “forcefeeding” is much of an exaggeration? Does Dr. Mercola has the proof to his claim that commercially sold honey is made the way he says (ie, forcefeeding). I learned from a bee keeper that some brands of creamed honey are made by adding sugar in their manufacturing process. I thought that’s ridiculous. But if Dr. Mercola makes the forcefeeding claim simply because some honey products contain ingredients other than honey, I’d say he forgot to do his homework thoroughly.

By the way, I’m a proponent of honey made the natural way possible. I buy honey from a local farmer who don’t medicate the bees and let the nature take care of the survival in the winter. I feel lucky to live in an area where I can contact farmers directly and learn their practices in helping my choice-making.

Anyway, I wondered about the possibly exaggerating claim by Dr. Mercola. Nevertheless, I appreciate his work. In case he was exaggerating, I wish that medical professionals be more careful about making claims. Agriculture is certainly not their expertise but they can simply make a few phone calls to find out what’s going on among the food producers, then make claims.

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

lyn4health — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:30:00 GMT

The Honey bee.......is my hero,

The use of bee products has enhance my quaily of life in countless ways.

I believe the birth of my second son was attributed to the fact that I had started consuming Royal Jelly about 2 years previously The doctors had told me 22 years before I could "Never" have anymore children because of a severe infection I'd had from the birth of my first son. Surprise!!!!!!! I gave birth to a healthy baby boy at the age of 40 at 4 p.m. and went home 4 hours later. I was up and going around to friends and family the next day. ( They all thought I had borrowed someones baby and was pulling a prank.) I attribute this to my consumtion of red raspberry leaf tea sweetened with Royal Jelly honey. With the delivery of my first son,( at age 18) I couldn't even get out of bed for 2 days.....what a difference DRUGS make!

I have witnessed honey to prevent blisters from a severe burn, stop pain from bruising injuries, as well as reducing or illiminating bruising.

I've also witnessed honey healing a bed sore that resisted all other treatment, along with healing several toe infections of diabetic friends.

I use honey along with olive oil for beauty treatment for my hair and skin......and everyone always guesses my age to be about 15 years younger than I am.

As for the original question.........I believe the use of honey can help us feel younger, however,

the addition of adulterated honey to pasturized, hormonized, denatured yogurt probally won't show much benifit unless you are a under-nourished Rat.

Stay natural........stay healthy.

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

catuskan60 — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:21:15 GMT

Force feeding bees? Why can't man keep his dirty little greedy hands off nature and stop interfering. I read a book from the library called "Robbing the Bees". After reading it ,I don't eat honey anymore. Man has ruined the rest of our food supply, might as well ruin the bees too.

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

Excel9 — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:45:31 GMT

In response to "Jen47":

I use Bragg raw, unfiltered, organic vinegar from my local healthfood store. It really packs a punch tastewise and it is very good.

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

healthier than I am — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:20:07 GMT

How sweet it is ! Look, I'm a dummy about all of this - but I use the darkest raw honey I can get, usually from Whole Foods. I dump a spoonful in my oatmeal, add cinnamon - I'm 72 and since I was 13 - I started with healthy foods,juicers,protein powders, supplements and anything I get my hands on that is grown w/o poison.And read, read books and opinions about health, fitness. One good proven (?) idea makes it worthwhile. As a kid I had scarlet fever, mumps, diptheria, whooping cough, measles, chicken pox and more. Sideways at 13 - I looked like a string with big feet. Amazingly, since then I have never been sick or had an operation, I do tris, workout 4 days a week, aerobics, maybe all of this works ? Because I have done all of this for, well, 59 years ?

I'm trying to find out about drinking water. I've read toooooo many articles about NOT drinking distilled water, but that's all I drink - for years and years.. Two glasses as soon as I get up and about 8 more during the day. At 6-4, my weight stays around 205. I once added up all the benefit percentages stated on taking this, eating that - it came out to 2,100 % of never having anything go wrong. I like to laff, mainly at myself. Hope I havn't bored you and Thanks for reading my first post or is it message? I'd like to hear from others and share ideas. Why not?

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

alm260 — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:28:39 GMT

I'm very blessed to have friends of ours that only live a few miles away that have raw honey (they sell it to our local co-op) and does it taste good! I use it only occasionally to sweeten tea or oatmeal.

Ground bee propolis is an excellent antiobiotic for gum/teeth related problems.

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TheOriginalLadyBug — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:48:44 GMT

After 2 month of digestive problems, constant pain, and dificulty eating; I heard Manuka honey was healing for the digestion. I found Certified Organic Manuka Honey Active 12+, at Whole Foods and almost didn't purchase it because the price was about $25.00 for a 500 g. jar. My husband was with me and encouraged me to spend the $25.00 because he reasoned that our medical co pay is $25.00 and if I resorted to going to the doctor I would have to stray over into the pharmacy world that I so much want to avoid. I purchased the Manuka honey and started using about a teaspoon several times a day. My digestion problems quickly resolved and now I use about a teaspoon everyday to keep me happy and healthy. It has not caused any weight gain and seems to have taken away my desire for sweets.

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

sds77 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:37:21 GMT

Ray,

We have a dairy farm and milk holsteins, a few brown swiss and a few ayrshires. I do have a pasturizer, but we usually always drink our milk unpasturized. We had about 50 bee hives, but haven't had the time to devote to them, so now we are down to about 15. We don't treat the bee's with anything. I can't promise that they produce "organic" honey, as has been stated, bees travel far and wide. True raw honey, will crystalize rather quickly. So, most honey you buy, will be pasturized. Honey can be melted down from a crystalized state. I was always told as long as you don't heat it above 130 degrees, it wouldn't lose a lot of the good properties in it. Pasturization (for milk) I know, is 160 degrees and I think it has to be held at that temperature for at least 10 minutes. I use the honey crystalized just like I would otherwise. Usually if honey is a creamy consistancy its been whipped to make a "butter". Just another note to people looking for un-medicated bees, a state bee inspector does come around and inspect beehives, at least here in Ohio. They look for the mites, etc. that bee's get. They are the ones that push medicating the bee's trying to get rid of fowl brood, mites, etc. We have to sign a paper with the state every year stating that we don't want our bee's inspected by the state. I don't know if every state operates this way or not, but I do know with the decline of the bee population, they are trying to get beekeepers to medicate more not less, which I feel may have led to the problem we are now facing!

I make handcrafted soaps, body butter, lotions, bath balms, lipbalms, lipsticks, make-up, candles, etc. I got started in this trying to find ways to use the bees wax!

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

Jonathan B — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:48:15 GMT

I have noticed that the raw unpasteurized honey affects me differently than the processed, pasteurized honey does, so I no longer buy the corporate honey. I also noticed that local honey seems to set better with me than Canadian honey or the imported types do. I get my honey now from farmer's markets and health food stores.

On the subject of bee colony decline, I have noticed that no one has discussed the fact that bees are a total sucker for sweets and will scavenge at the local dairy queen for discarded shakes and malts and ice cream. I have also seen them at amusement park trash cans and zoos, patroling the trash cans for anything sweet.

I wonder if the ubiquitous introduction of corn syrup in human foods may be getting to the wild bees through scavenging, in the same way that domestic bees are fed in the winter with this toxic material.

I can see a colony with a ready supply of sweets to feed on at a fast food place might supplement there diet with junk if the flowers are scarce, or not close by.

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

Tinkrmann — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:24:23 GMT

SStuck:

It will be going up more in price if something can't be done about the bee population dwindling...

Tinkrmann

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Tinkrmann — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:21:31 GMT

who knows what Fonterra will do with the research favorable to real raw honey. For all we know they will use the same hfcs laden USDA certified pure honey thereby negating all of the positive benefits from pure honey.

I have been using honey instead of sugar and have found my memory is greatly improved. I remember where I placed things five minutes ago now (short term memory improvement - it is quite impressive).

An old chiropractor I used to go to also used honey to dress some infected wounds I had from scraping myseof up in a motorcycle accident. It was quite effective; the "conventional" methods of treating the wounds were not working and, they were QUITE painful to apply and the infection simply ignored the chemicals and pain increased in the wounds.

I am sure it was real raw unpasturized honey....

Tinkrmann

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

kimkc — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:37:39 GMT

I don't think raw honey causes spikes in insulin levels due to the fact that it is raw and takes longer to digest than pasteurized honey but it still is a type of sweetener. I purchase raw honey in glass canning type jars from our local organic farm. The raw honey is purchased direct from a farmer and is so obviously raw compared to the other type sold at this organic farm or any grocery store. It is always thick and turns sugary in 2 weeks from purchase due to the fact that it is raw. Store honey has to stay on the shelf and look pretty in those unhealthy plastic containers to attract shoppers so it is heated at high temperatures which keeps it in a thin liquid form. My dad was a beekeeper so I know what real raw honey tastes and looks like...my taste buds were acclimated to a certain taste for honey. The raw honey I buy is a blackberry honey from a rural area in the Puget Sound. It is $15 for a quart but so worth it because you use 1/2 the amount for sweetening some of the raw vegan desserts that I like to make for my family or yummy honey mustard chicken for my child on a GFCFSF diet. Some people can be allergic to honey but I am sure it is the processed honey that many allergy tests use. I know that I get canker sores and digestion problems from cooked nuts but raw almonds, cashews, etc. don't cause problems. This may be the same for those of you that feel bad from honey. The processed stuff makes me feel tired, sick or sometimes even hyper if mixed with caffeine!

re: Can You Use Honey to Stay Young?

Jen47 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:28:32 GMT

Considering all the different types of honey I found in Wild Oats you could probably try one a day for a two weeks and not run out of new ones to try. The one I bought said, (Beehive, land, facility and product certified) Raw, unheated, purest, richest, healthiest, safest. Harvested w/extreme care.

It is from V.S.Organic Bee farms, Sheridan Il. Certified Organic by Organic Crop Improvement Assn, Lincoln, Ne.

(was that overkill? haha)

It is Organic Honey with Phyto-Foods (Papaya, grapefruit, Mango, Passion Fruit) and it's off white and looks kinda like a "butter".

WOW on the taste! I use a tsp just once in a while for a "sweet treat".