The Beauty of Real Honey

If you’ve ever paged through Benjamin Hoff’s delightful book, The Tao of Pooh, you know there is much to learn from this unassuming yellow bear.  But did you know that our beloved Pooh Bear points the way to an important cellulite secret?

Every morning, when Pooh awakes from another night of blissful slumber in the Hundred Acre Wood (assuming the heffalumps and woozles aren’t on his mind, of course), it’s not long before he notices a rumbly in his tumbly and reaches for his trusty hunny honey pot.

Pooh’s cupboards are filled with pots of thick golden honey, not plastic bear-shaped squeezy bottles that ooze a  translucent brown, honey-like substance.  I’ve always loved honey, but once I had my first taste of Real Honey, I understood Pooh’s addiction.

Lucky for us cellulite victims, Real Honey is more than just a sweet treat. Real Honey is raw –it’s never heated over 117 degrees –so all the heat-sensitive enzymes and nutrients are still in tact.1 According to renowned enzyme researcher, Dr. Edward Howell, raw honey contains considerable amounts of plant amylase, an enzyme that digests carbohydrates.2 It also contains trace minerals, like selenium, phosphorous, zinc, and others.3

Real Honey is unfiltered, so it includes all the pollen and propolis that the bees put into it.  Both are packed with antioxidant compounds.  According to Bronwyn Hewitt, author of The Ultimate Cellulite Treatment in a Book, honey is an effective cellulite treatment because of the antioxidants that help clear out the free radicals floating around your system.  Whenever Bron gets a new client who is overwhelmed with her cellulite struggle, her first recommendation is to have a warm drink with honey every morning.

You can order Real Honey online (Really Raw Honey offers free shipping anywhere in the continental U.S.) or poke around a nearby health food store or farmers’ market for a local option –it’s much easier than trying to get honey through Pooh’s imitation rain cloud approach.  We all know how THAT went down.

*This post is a part of Real Food Wednesday hosted at Cheeseslave and Works for Me Wednesday hosted at We Are THAT Family.

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