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Honey, wonderful healer

Popular wisdom says that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but it’s even more likely to avoid extra trips to the doctor, if you make the honey part of your diet.

We all have a jar of honey in our pantry, but many people do not realize that it is an extraordinary healer. The combination of antibacterial agents, iron, vitamins and many other healthy qualities make honey a great ally for health. The regular intake of honey stimulates the immune system, helping to strengthen the white blood cells, enabling them to fight more effectively against both bacterial and viral diseases.

Honey can not be a substitute for good healthy nutrition, neither a multivitamin that excludes other inputs, but it is a powerful ally in the diet, improving the overall health and welfare.

If you’re looking for the “miracle diet of honey,” you would be disappointed. Although honey is a much healthier alternative to other sweeteners, is not a miracle to supplement the diet. However, some people claim that a pre-breakfast in the morning, drinking a preparation of honey and cinnamon powder dissolved in hot water, can help promote weight loss. There are people who says they have successfully used honey as part of a plan to reduce weight, since taking this drink can prevent the accumulation of fat in the body, stimulating weight loss generally with less effort.

Most of us do not think of honey as a treatment for moisturizing the skin, since its sticky quality seems contrary to our expectations of a skin treatment. A honey, however, is often called as “the perfect moisturizer nature” and a lot of people who suffer from dry skin, find relief through the use of honey. If you suffer an abscess dry skin that requires assistance, all you need do is apply a small amount of honey on the area, leaving it covered with a gauze and withdrawn after it with warm water. Once removed the remains of honey, you look incredibly smooth skin.

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Keys to enjoy a good honey

To buy honey

Directly acquire honey to the beekeeper. Besides getting to know these curious characters, you can ask them about the natural environment where the honey came from and give you some advice about their properties. The organic certification is a guarantee, always when it is checked by a certifying body.
Make sure that label includes a sanitary registration, this guarantee the absence of pesticides, herbicides or  not authorized treatment on the apiary. 
You must find out if the honey comes from the last harvest, so you can enjoy all the properties of honey (overheating in the packaging process or old honey lost many of its properties, and you will just take sugars).
The pack containing honey should be made of glass or ceramic without paint.
Do not be fooled with those products that contain the word honey. Some are sugars whose source is not an apiary, such as cane sugar, of unknown origin and subjected to processes that make no more value than the sweetener. The EU makes it very clear in its legislation that can only be called the honey from the apiary.
Once the honey is at home

Keep in dark, dry place and tightly closed. This will prevent fermentation. Do not mix the remains of honey, so you can enjoy all their flavours.
Take advantage of the wide variety of mono-flower honeys we have, each with distinctive tastes and properties, it’s better to consume the diversity of mono-flower ones.
Use proper utensils for honey: dry and free of any other food.
Preferably, do not heat honey. Use those creamy honeys that do not crystallized.
Eat your honey in the first 6 months after collected.

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