Benefits 1: Skin care and beauty

When fresh honey is applied to the skin, it can nourish and nourish the skin, making it delicate, smooth and elastic.

Usage: Dilute with honey and 2-3 times of water, and apply to face every day. You can also make a facial mask with cereal, protein and honey, and massage your face for 1 minutes when you use it, so that the nutrients of honey can penetrate into skin cells.

Benefit 2: Restore fatigue, especially after staying up late

Among all natural foods, the energy required by brain neurons is the highest in honey. Fructose and glucose in honey can be quickly absorbed and utilized by the body to improve the nutritional status of blood.

usage: a cup of honey water at noon.

Benefit 3: Promote digestion

Studies have proved that honey can regulate gastrointestinal function and make gastric acid secretion normal. Animal experiments have proved that honey can enhance intestinal peristalsis and significantly shorten defecation time.

Usage: Honey has a good effect on colitis and habitual constipation without any side effects. Honey can make stomachache and burning sensation disappear, and the values of red blood cells and hemoglobin increase. People suffering from gastroduodenal ulcer often take honey, which also has an auxiliary effect.

Benefit 4: Improve immunity

A variety of enzymes and minerals contained in honey can improve human immunity after synergistic action. Experimental studies have proved that feeding mice with honey can improve their immune function.

usage: honey is commonly used abroad to treat colds and pharyngolaryngitis by adding 2 spoonfuls of honey and 1/4 spoonfuls of fresh lemon juice to a glass of water and taking 3-4 cups a day.

Benefit 5: Promoting longevity

Scholars in the former Soviet Union have investigated more than 2 elderly people over 1 years old, among whom 143 are beekeepers, confirming that their longevity is related to eating honey frequently. The mechanism of honey promoting longevity is complex, which is a comprehensive conditioning of the human body, rather than simply acting on an organ.

benefit 6: improving sleep

honey can relieve nervous tension, promote sleep and have a certain analgesic effect. Glucose, vitamins, magnesium, phosphorus and calcium in honey can regulate the nervous system and promote sleep.

Usage: For neurasthenia, a spoonful of honey before going to bed every night can improve sleep. The sedative function of apple honey collected from apple flowers is more prominent.

Benefit 7: Liver protection

The protective effect of honey on the liver can provide energy preparation for the metabolic activity of the liver, stimulate the regeneration of liver tissue and repair the damage.

usage: people with chronic hepatitis and poor liver function can often eat honey to improve liver function.

Benefit 8: Anti-fatigue

Fructose and glucose in honey can be quickly absorbed and utilized, improving the blood condition. Taking honey when people are tired can obviously eliminate fatigue symptoms in 15 minutes.

usage: for mental workers and people who stay up late, taking honey water can make them energetic. Athletes taking honey 15 minutes before the game can help improve their physical fitness.

Disadvantages of drinking honey water

Disadvantages 1. Drink honey water before going to bed, and be careful to gain weight and decay teeth

Drinking boiled water before going to bed at night can make your body metabolize for water storage overnight, but if you drink honey water, the water contains a lot of solutes, and the density will increase, which will not achieve the effect of drinking water before going to bed, and will increase blood sugar rapidly. The sugar contained in honey water is also easily converted into fat and accumulated in the body, which makes you gain weight quietly!

It's even worse to drink honey water after brushing your teeth. A large number of bacteria will corrode your teeth in your mouth, so it's really not cost-effective to drink honey water before going to bed at night!

Disadvantages 2. Taking honey as the first glass of water in the morning is not healthy.

Many people think that drinking a cup of light honey water on an empty stomach in the morning is not only relaxing the bowels, but also reducing the fire. But in fact, this practice is not desirable. Honey water contains corresponding sugar, not in the form of pure water. After drinking, fructose in honey must be converted into glucose through human metabolism before it can be absorbed and utilized by human body, thus losing the function of cleaning the internal environment of the body with the first glass of water in the morning.

Moreover, honey, as the first glass of water, can't effectively replenish the water of body cells, and the urination time is relatively slower than that of boiled water, which reduces the efficacy of detoxification in the body. At this time, the body did not remove the waste, but came to accept new substances. When the new substances were mixed with the waste residue, the metabolic absorption process of new and old hybrid substances in the body was presented, and the nutrients of honey could not be obtained well, and the re-metabolism of the residue was even worse for health.

Disadvantages 3. Drinking honey at high temperature

Honey contains not only 65% to 8% glucose and fructose, but also abundant enzymes, vitamins and minerals. When eating honey, you should drink it with warm water, and the water temperature should not exceed 6℃. If high-temperature boiling water rushes into honey, it will not only destroy its rich nutrients, but also cause its natural color, fragrance and taste to change.

Experiments show that when honey is heated to 67℃ for a little longer, amylase in honey will decompose and its color will become dark. Vitamin C in honey is destroyed by 1/5 to 1/2.

Disadvantages 4. Excessive consumption leads to diabetes and dental caries

It is appropriate for normal adults to eat about 2 to 25 grams of honey every day. Because glucose and fructose in honey are monosaccharides, they can be directly absorbed into the blood by the human body. If you eat a large amount of honey at a time, you can make your blood sugar rise rapidly. Excessive consumption of honey for a long time will lead to insufficient insulin secretion and easily lead to diabetes.

Secondly, honey has a high sugar content, and it is finely made and the finished product is sticky, so it has great cariogenic power. Therefore, sticky honey is not good for teeth.