What do you think when you hear someone say that honey is better than sugar?

Years ago, (more than I care to name) when I heard anyone talk about how much better honey was than sugar, I was immediately turned off.  I thought of honey as a waxy tasting substance that made anything I put it on taste like wax.  I didn’t really care that it was “suppose” to be better for you than sugar.  I was not interested at all in replacing my sugar with honey, no matter how much better it was suppose to be. 

Years later when my husband talked me into trying raw, unfiltered, unheated honey, I was so surprised.  What happened to the waxy unappetizing taste? It did not at all resemble the honey that I remembered.  It actually tasted really good and I wanted more. 

I came to find out that the honey I had been eating in restaurants and from supermarket shelves was processed honey.  I then discovered that this same honey was not so good for you after all.  Most of the vitamins and minerals go away when it is processed and heated.  However, the raw unprocessed honey that actually tastes good is actually good for you!  Wow, how could this be?  I could now replace my processed sugar with something I actually liked and then feel good about it, because it’s actually good for me. 

I decided I had to find out if this was true, so I started looking into and found out the following. Unlike sugar, honey is a unique food, a living, organic.  It is an instant energy building food, an antioxidant containing all the essential minerals necessary for life. It has seven vitamins of the B complex group, amino acids and enzymes. Sounded pretty impressive.

Honey goes into the blood stream in fifteen minutes.  Ordinary sugar, a chemical saccharose, is completely indigestible, absolutely dead and harmful. It takes the human system 2 – 4 hours of hard work to invert and convert saccharose into simpler digestible form of glucosides, and then assimilate, exhausting the human system.

Dr. Paul Carlton wrote in his book “The three killer foods” that sugar is a poison, a 100% chemical, one of the 3 killer foods.  That didn’t sound too good!

On the other side, honey produces more energy than its weight and in doing so it uses part of the accumulated fat and cholesterol. It therefore is excellent in any weight reduction plan. WOW, something that tastes so sweet & so good can be used when trying to lose weight!

In fact, honey contains so many minerals, vitamins, enzymes and inhibine, a newly find antibacterial agent that acts like penicillin, and other antibiotics, killing microbes and germs that it is correctly called a medicine; the elixir of life. It has been used as medicine for millenniums and is still used in prescriptions for cold.

Honey is also a mild laxative which helps digestion. In Dr. Jarvis’ best seller book “Folk Medicine” he recommends honey and apple cider vinegar for health and strength and to be taken many times a day.

REMEMBER THOUGH.  It has to be raw unheated honey.  If it doesn’t say “RAW” on the honey package, then it is processed and the benefits aren’t there. 

The best part of all this is that you can satisfy your sweet tooth, treat you body good, and feel good about it.  I not only use it in my tea, cereal, as a snack, but I use it in cooking as well.

Have you tried raw honey yet?  Let us know and tell us your experience since using it.  I am so happy I have found this awesome food. 

Enjoy

Patricia 

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