You might think that honey is just a high calorie, fattening sweetener, and another thing you can't eat if you're trying to eat healthy. If you think this, you would be wrong. Raw, local honey, offers incredible benefits to the user aside from the obvious sweet wonderful flavor and smooth texture.
Honey is used the world over as a remedy for skin care, allergies, infections, dieting and more. Raw honey is fat free, cholesterol free, and completely natural packing only 64 high nutrient calories per tablespoon. I have used it myself, a teaspoon a day of local raw honey and have not taken ONE allergy pill all spring!
Just as honey can be used to treat many aliments there are many different varieties, flavors and aromas of honey. Honey gets its flavor as well as health factors from the location of the honeybees. This is why raw, local honey is especially beneficial to treating local allergies and nutritional deficiencies. Some people claim that if you are moving to a new area that you should purchase some honey from that area and start eating it a month or so before your arrival to ward off allergies and local bugs.
While honey is good for you, like anything else, it must be used in moderation because for the most part, a calorie is a calorie. Some people say you can eat as many as 10 to 20 teaspoons of honey per day but really, it depends on you.
If you are feeling healthy, of normal weight, or are substituting honey for processed sugar, don't worry about it. If you are eating raw, unprocessed, local honey, and you are stopping your use of processed sugars, do not give it another thought, eat all you want.
However, if you have been off sugar for some time, and you find you are eating gallons of honey, gaining weight, or not losing more weight but are trying to, then consider cutting back unless you have another less healthy item in your diet in which to cut. Honey is rich in nutrients and should not be the first thing you cut out.
To find out where you can get raw local honey in your area, ask at your local farmer's market, or do a search online. Usually, if you find a local source it is less expensive than the kind in the store, tastes better and has many more health benefits.
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