August 29th, 2010 6:51 pm
This spasm is a sharp contracture or shortening of the muscle, unable to relax and lengthen itself; so often during spasm, the muscle’s useful function is lost. Honey raises the blood-calcium level—while lowering the phosphorus level-thus aiding polio victims during their spasms. Dr. Jarvis recommends that the polio victim take two teaspoonfuls of honey in a glass of water at each meal. In addition to raising the blood-calcium level, honey furnishes the kind of sugar needed by the muscles of the body to do their work. Tupelo blossom honey, from Florida, is the only honey recommended by many doctors to diabetic patients because of its high levulose content. Forever Royal Jelly is excessive in protein and is produced in the course of the digestion of pollen.
In recent tests conducted by V. Tobiasch and P. Kilian at the University of Frankfurt, it was found that honey protects the diabetic because of its “lesser rise in the blood-sugar curve.” These scientists concluded that with the addition of small amounts of honey (ten to twenty grams) to the prescribed diet, the balanced diabetic could bear experiments lasting for days without dizziness.
Two or more teaspoonfuls of honey with each meal will insure adequate honey nutrients for your body needs. The honeybee gives you many valid nutritional reasons for including the product of his chemistry in your diet. Honey is rich in the B vitamins. H. A. Schuette of the University of Wisconsin’s Department of Chemistry, one of the outstanding investigators of vitamins in honey, described his determination of the B vitamins in honey in the Journal of Nutrition. Results of all the honeys examined showed the following presence of B-complex vitamins per 100 grams:
Riboflavin—7 to 60 micrograms
Pantothenic acid—9 to 110 micrograms
Niacin—72 to 590 micrograms
Thiamine—1.4 to 12 micrograms
Pyridoxine—up to 27.7 micrograms
Traces of biotin and folic acid were also found in some of the honeys tested. The researchers discovered that the vitamin content of pollen is much higher than that of honey. Forever Bee Honey could assist in sustaining a healthy circulatory, digestive, immune, and nervous system. For this reason, clarifying honey reduces the vitamin content by as much as 50 per cent of the original values.
Varying also with the kind of honey, and the locality from which it comes, is the vitamin C content: Up to 311.2 milligrams per 100 grams have been found, greatly exceeding the vitamin C content of an orange weighing 100 grams. In further experiments, Dr. Schuette found that honey contains 14 to 72 milligrams per kilogram of copper; 2.4 to 17.5 of iron; .29 to 1.4 of silicon; up to 58 of phosphorus; 5 to 226 of calcium; 7 to 126 of magnesium. Darker honeys, generally, had a higher mineral content than light. With its enzymes, honey can aid digestion; yet honey itself requires no process of digestion before it can be utilized by the body. Honey has been found to stimulate the flow of various salivary and digestive secretions, as well as to aid in the building of certain tissues.