I Love Honey and Now the Honey Bees Amazed Me

I love having honey for my diet. But I am also amazed by what the researchers claim that honey bees learn how to count. I am wondering if they indeed are counting or are they just perhaps using their sensors to identify them. Well---I am not a researcher but I do want to know more of these fascinating creatures.

An Australian and a Swedish researcher say they have proved honey bees are more intelligent than previously thought.

Professor Mandyam Srinivasan from Queensland University and Dr Marie Dacke trained honey bees to count by placing food at different markers.

Professor Srinivasan says he has also found bees can learn colours and smells and be trained to fly through complicated mazes.

"The more we look at these creatures that have a brain the size of a sesame seed, the more astonished we are," he said.

"They really have a lot of the capacities that we so-called higher human beings possess."

The scientists also say they have proved honey bees can count to four.

The put five markers inside a tunnel and placed nectar at one of them.

When honey bees were put in the tunnel, they flew to the marker with the food.

Professor Srinivasan says when the experiment was repeated without nectar the bees still flew to the marker that had contained the food.

"We find that if you train them to the third stripe, they will look subsequently in the third stripe," he said.

'If you train them to the fourth stripe, they will look in the fourth stripe and so on.

"But their ability to count seems to go only up to four. They can't count beyond four."

So they end up to four counts. That is because they only have brains as small as a sesame seed perhaps.

An Organic Beverage Made of Honey

A new beverage of four flavors is just what we need to replace some of our energy drinks. Honey is said to boost the immune system. I am anxious to taste this honey drink; this time it is no longer quenching our thirst. It is boosting immune systems.

Deluxe Honeydrop Launches New Honey-Infused Organic Beverage in Four Flavors. It is a leading producer of honey-infused waters. The company’s first line of premium beverages, in conjunction with the Natural Product Expo East trade show in Boston.

Containing only 80 calories per 16.9 oz bottle, Deluxe Honeydrop comes in four exciting flavors: Bee Good (apple), Bee Alive (blood orange), Bee Calm (chamomile) and Bee Strong (blueberry).

Luks chose organic honey as the company’s prime ingredient for multiple reasons. The glucose in honey burns fast for instant energy, while the fructose burns slower for lasting energy. Deluxe Honeydrop only uses organic honey, which helps sustain the life cycle of bees, which is currently an international concern.

Sweet Honey for Health

Not all sweet is unhealthy. Honey is sweet, but it has many benefits to our health.

Honey is composed of sugars like glucose and fructose, as well as minerals like magnesium, potassium, calcium, sodium chlorine, sulphur, iron, and phosphate.

It also contains chemicals that are capable of killing viruses, bacteria and fungi, making it a good substitute for wound dressing.

It helps kidneys and intestines to function better. Honey helps in cleansing blood and has positive effects on the regulation of blood circulation. Honey helps to improve appetite, especially in children. Honey has been found to be beneficial to those suffering from anaemia, asthma, baldness, fatigue and exhaustion, headache and migraine, high blood pressure and insect bites.

Make honey part of your diet.

Manuka Honey for Beauty and Health

MANUKA HONEY’S international notoriety stems have the ability to treat a wide spectrum of health conditions, both internally and topically on the skin.

Manuka Honey is even efficacious enough to eradicate Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) and other antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. In addition to its medicinal qualities, Manuka Honey is also drawing attention to itself as a cosmetic ingredient.

Its antibacterial properties eliminate infections that cause red marks, boils, and pimples. Honeybees use this nectar to produce Manuka Honey. Bee farmers in New Zealand put their hives within close proximity to Manuka trees so that the bees only use its nectar to manufacture their honey.

"In many cases, active Manuka Honey has proven to be more effective than traditional forms of medicine," says Frank Buonanotte, CEO of Honeymark International.

Honey for Burns

Honey has been amazing both in its taste and healing properties. I take honey almost everyday because I believe in its benefits.

Natural honey can heal burns more quickly than some standard dressing treatments, a study has shown.

"We're treating these results with caution, but it looks like honey can help speed up healing in some burns," said chief researcher Dr Andrew Jull, from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Honey has been used to treat wounds since ancient times. How it works is unclear, but it appears to fight infection and help the body remove dead tissue. Although honey benefited burns, the researchers could find no reliable evidence that it aided recovery from grazes, lacerations, surgical wounds or leg ulcers.

Dr Jull said: Health services should invest in treatments that have been shown to work. The findings were published by the Cochrane Library, which provides systematic reviews of research studies.

Just the food for the gods!

Fair Trade Certified for Beekeepers and the Bees and its Natural Habitat

The world has known greatly of the benefits of honey.

People are flocking the groceries to take honey as an alternative to sugar as well believing that honey can boost the immune system.

But let us also not forget that beekeepers need to be protected as well as the bees and their natural habitat. In so doing a Fair Trade Certified label is what we should look for when choosing the honey to buy.

Fair Trade Certified is Wholesome's guarantee that the farmers' cooperatives that supply Wholesome's sugar are paid fairly and directly. This product comes in two flavors: Amber Honey and Raw Honey.

Pauline McKee, Wholesome Sweeteners' vice president of marketing, said: "With the Fair Trade program, we are able to create business opportunities and a new sense of stability. The beekeepers are able to improve standards for their families, their communities and their honey, and protect precious rainforests and habitat.

Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey: an Excellent Product

It is always good to find better products for health. To discredit the other is not the motive; but to improve quality for better living is a must we should try to meet. Here is an update:

A Tasmanian leatherwood honey producer is about to start challenging New Zealand's honey industry for the top spot in the premium medicinal honey market.

Launceston company, Australian Honey Products, is testing its honey for medicinal properties, and managing director, Lindsay Bourke, says much of his leatherwood honey is proving to be better than New Zealand's manuka (mah-NOO-kuh).

Mr Bourke says he's been talking with buyers from all over the world at a major organic trade fair in Japan.

"We always thought it was a terrible little honey, called manuka or leptospermum, and for many years we were ringing each other and saying you can't go up there are get your leatherwood yet, because that horrible manuka honey is still flowering," he says. "But now we know it isn't horrible manuka, it's an excellent product.

Honey for Sore Throats

Anyone who has suffered with a sore throat during cold and flu season might find a honey-based organic throat drop a sweet idea. According to the World Health Organization, tens of millions of people contract influenza every winter, and even more catch the common cold. Organic honey drops, such as Bee M.D., taste sweet and smooth like the honey from which they are created without the harsh medicinal taste of other name-brand drops. When used in throat drops, honey can ward off cold symptoms naturally.

Bees play a vital role, acting as pollinators for flowers, trees, fruits and crops. With every purchase, the company donates money to protecting endangered bees.