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Top 6 Raw Honey Benefits

Raw Honey

Raw honey has been used as a folk remedy throughout history and has a variety of health benefits and medical uses. It’s even used in some hospitals as a treatment for wounds. Many of these health benefits are specific to raw, or unpasteurized, honey.

Overview

Most of the honey you find in grocery stores is pasteurized. The high heat kills unwanted yeast, can improve the color and texture, removes any crystallization, and extends the shelf life. Many of the beneficial nutrients are also destroyed in the process.

If you’re interested in trying raw honey, buy it from Pahrump Honey. Here are some health benefits raw honey has to offer:

1. A good source of antioxidants

Raw honey contains an array of plant chemicals that act as antioxidants. Some types of honey have as many antioxidants as fruits and vegetables. Antioxidants help to protect your body from cell damage due to free radicals.

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Microwave Honey Peanut Brittle

Peanut Brittle

Here’s a quick and easy peanut brittle recipe using the microwave.

Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup Pahrump Honey
  • 1/4 cup light corn syrup
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup peanuts
  • 1 tsp butter or margarine
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tsp baking soda

Directions

  • Stir Pahrump Honey, corn syrup, sugar, salt and peanuts into a 2-quart microwavable dish.
  • Microwave 7 minutes, stirring well after 4 minutes.
  • After 7 minutes, add butter or margarine and vanilla, blending well.
  • Cook 1 minute more.
  • Add soda and gently stir until light and foamy.
  • Pour onto cookie sheet that has been sprayed with nonstick vegetable coating.
  • Let cool 30 to 60 minutes.
  • Store in an airtight container to keep peanut brittle from drawing moisture.
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Oxidative Stress Rising Globally

oxidative stress

Oxidative Stress can be reduced by consumption of honey. A study recently published in the journal Molecules has given excellent scientific insight into the many health benefits of honey. The review published lends great credibility to what we’ve known for a long time – that honey has the ability to both slow and prevent the diseases of aging.

The journal stated:

“The global prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), atherosclerosis (plaque in the arteries), cancer and Alzheimer’s disease is on the rise. These diseases, which constitute the major causes of death globally, are associated with oxidative stress.”

The authors gave an excellent definition of what oxidative stress is and what it does to your body over time: Continue reading Oxidative Stress Rising Globally

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Popular Honey Recipes

honey recipes

Looking for honey recipes? Honey is one of nature’s gifts. Not only is it good for you, there are a multitude of honey recipes to put its unique qualities to good use in cooking. Cooking with honey is a good choice, because of its natural sweetness it is a great substitute for sugar. It can be used in many baked goods as well as jams and jellies.

From grilling to roasting, honey recipes can be found with just about any cooking method, and it can be used in recipes served either hot or cold. Replace sugar with equal parts honey in your favorite muffin recipe – the silky texture helps keep baked goods moist.

Whether giving a delicious glaze to meat, drizzled onto yoghurt or dipped in cheese. Honey as the natural way to give your food a buzz.

Here are a few honey recipes that benefit fom the natural nectar in the kitchen, Continue reading Popular Honey Recipes

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What is Queens Royal Jelly?

Royal Jelly

It is a “thick milky” substance that worker bees produce to feed the larva of workers bees for the first 3 days. Worker bees are fed a mixture of pollen and honey after the 3 days of Royal Jelly. However, the larva which the workers have selected to develop into Queens are continued to be fed Royal Jelly by worker bees for 10 days and the abundance of this is what makes the larva become a Queen. Queen bees are made from the same kind of egg that makes a worker but the egg fed more Queens Royal Jelly produces a Queen. It is the Queens Royal Jelly that makes a Queen a Queen. Continue reading What is Queens Royal Jelly?

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Propolis Kills Breast Cancer Cells In Study

Breast Cancer study was recently published in the American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology demonstrating propolis’ effect on breast cancer cells.

This study was performed in a human breast carcinoma cell called MCF-7. The results demonstrated that an extract of propolis can indeed induce cell death in breast cancer cells. In just 24 hours the propolis extract was able to kill 13% of the cancer cells.

In another study published in the journal Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity (Volume 2016), the Propolis compound Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester (CAPE) was found to augment the effects of the widely used drug Tamoxifen.

Although Tamoxifen is one of the most widely used drug

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Bee Propolis Benefits Health

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Bee Propolis  Boosts Your Immune System

Bee Propolis benefits. Scientists recently looked at the immune stimulating effects of bee propolis. The researchers gave different doses of propolis to hens and then measured the activity in their immune systems.

What they found was that the addition of propolis at 3 g/kg in the diet resulted in significant increases in antibody levels – it boosted immune activity.

They also found that propolis supplementation significantly increased red blood cells compared with the other treatments. Continue reading Bee Propolis Benefits Health