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Honey Health Benefits

Why do we call our loved ones honey?

It is not only because of the sweetness of honey but also due to the care it offers to the health, same as your loved ones care for you.

Basics About Honey
Honey is a thick golden colored liquid extracted from the honeycombs inside beehive. Since 2500 years it is considered to be one of the best foods for maintaining optimum health.

The sweetness of honey is unique as it contains monosaccharides fructose and glucose.

Honey Health Benefits

Energy Source

Health benefits of honey are many but the most important is its property to act as an energy booster. The carbohydrates present in abundance in honey which makes it good supplier of energy. The glucose content of honey is absorbed quickly in body and provides you with instant energy and fructose in honey makes it a sustainable source of energy.

Builds Strong Immune System

The production of antibodies is increased by the daily intake of 1 teaspoon of honey. Honey protects you from infectious diseases. Immune system of the person who daily eats honey is found to be stronger than the one who doesn’t or rarely eats honey. This is one of the most important health benefits of honey acclaimed by the medicine fraternity.

Protection Against Infections

It has the antibacterial properties that build a natural resistance of body against bacterial infections. The process of digestion is improved by honey that helps you to stay away from amoebic infections caused due to the unclean water.

It provides a soothing effect to throat that is being swollen due to the throat infections. Even mouth ulcers can be treated by applying honey on them. Also it helps to reduces cough caused due to the infections. It acts as effective cough suppressant for children.

Some of the experiment recently has also found it effective against anti-viral and anti-fungal experiments.

Helps to Maintain Healthy Weight

A teaspoon of honey taken along with 200 ml of milk helps you to increase the weight, whereas a teaspoon of honey taken along with 200 ml of water helps you to loose weight. Thence if you are facing excessive weight of underweight problem then certainly honey can help you out to get healthy weight.

Reduces Sleep Problems

Insomnia can be controlled with the help of honey. Take a teaspoon of honey before going to bed and it will help to you to get good sleep as it acts a sleep inducing agent.

Good for Heart Patients

Honey strengthens the heartbeat and prevents heart attacks. Its helps the heart patients to improve the overall health and proves to be a natural cure for heart problems. Specifically for the elderly heart patients it does wonders by improving their heart health.

Effective Against Tooth Decays

Tooth decays are found to be 50% less in those individuals who had honey as a part of their daily diet. It helps them the gums of teeth to get stronger and avoids any infection to grow around the teeth’s root. It is also fond to reduce the tooth decay process by 20% if applied on affected area.

These are the health benefits of honey that makes it a special food. So, if start eating honey and stay healthy.

Nutritional Value of Honey (100 gms) is as follows:


Energy  1,272 kJ (304 kcal)
Carbohydrates  82.4 g
- Sugars  82.12 g
- Dietary fiber  0.2 g
Fat  0 g
Protein  0.3 g
Water  17.10 g
Riboflavin (vit. B2)  0.038 mg (3%)
Niacin (vit. B3)  0.121 mg (1%)
Pantothenic acid (B5)  0.068 mg (1%)
Vitamin B6  0.024 mg (2%)
Folate (vit. B9)  2 μg (1%)
Vitamin C  0.5 mg (1%)
Calcium  6 mg (1%)
Iron  0.42 mg (3%)
Magnesium  2 mg (1%)
Phosphorus  4 mg (1%)
Potassium  52 mg (1%)
Sodium  4 mg (0%)
Zinc  0.22 mg (2%)

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