Winter is Coming, Stock Up on Honey
November 5, 2008 by Carolin
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A research team in Denmark is currently investigating the use of honey instead of antibiotics.
Hippocrates used honey to heal wounds. While we seam to have forgotten its powers honey is still used today in development countries to heal burns and diarrhea.
A pot of honey is a great resource in the kitchen cabinet. Especially during the cold winter months.
Here are some great alternative uses of honey.
- Cold and fever
- Coughing and sore throat
- Dry lips
- Weight gain
- Why: Honey is a more efficient sweetener than sugar. It contains several healthy vitamins, minerals and enzymes. With a low glycemic index it does not cause a sugar rush.
- How To Use: Replace sugar with honey whenever possible with 75 g honey for every 100 g sugar.
- Acne
If stored in a cool, dark place honey can keep fresh for over a hundred years.
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This article is all well and good but it promotes the exploitation and suffering of living creatures. Honey is made for bees by bees. Yet they are subjected to be left with mediocre replacement so the humans can selfishly take the honey the bees work hard to make.
There’s no need to use honey for medical uses, either. There is a great alternative that is exactly the same thing but without the bees involved. It’s called agave nectar and is only slightly sweeter than honey.
For more info on the suffering of bees : http://www.vegansociety.com/animals/exploitation/bees.php
For agave nectar: http://www.groovyfood.co.uk/thingswemake/agavenectar.html
I’m all for animal rights but it is very hard for me to see why using honey would be bad. Especially since I use locally produced honey.
But then again I’m not a vegan.
I feel that the we have a much more important battle with the meat industry.