Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-11-25
HONEY FOR HEALTH
By Russell H. Kelly.

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From the very beginning of history
of human events, honey has been
held in high esteem. Because it was
the sweetest and most delicious food
known to them, the writer's of the
ancient Greek legends imagined that
their Gods on high Olympus stated
keen appetites with nectar AS
standard of comparison honey is often
mentioned with high regard in the
Bible, c. f., Pleasant as a honey
comb; sweet to the soul and health
to the bones. Or, Hast thou found
honey? Eat as much as is sufficient
for thee. And, "My son, eat thou
honey for it is good"
Because honey was the most cas-
lily obtainable sweet until few CEN
possessions, and when swarm
issued from hive, trumpets and mu-
steal instruments we're sounded to
warn the countryside to watch where
the swarm might alight. Walls were
built around the apiary to keep out
loUUSI0. Ill lCuuCll t1luCS, ilO1lCy was
not only used extensively as food, it
was the chief ingredient of the uni
versal beverage, mead. Honey was
used as laxative by the doctors, and
as a preservative for choice speci-
mems of fruit, modern methods of can
ming and preserving being then I'M
known.
Today the nations sweet tooth re-
quires over 100 pounds of sugar for
each persons yearly consumption,
while the per capita consumption of
honey is less than three pounds year.
ly. Since the refining process removes
from the juice of cane all of flavor
giving oils and all of the mineral
elements which may have been pres
ent, white table sugar is very nearly
chemically pure sucrose, valuable as
a producer of energy, but worthless
for tissue and bone building. In fact,
an abnormal consumption of sugar
may bring one or more of long list
of ailments, such as injury to the
teeth, especially for children, diabetes,
kidney trouble, or disorders of the di-
gestive system.
Honey, natures own sweet, deli
ciously favored with the fragrance
of the flowers from which it comes,
contains two pre-digested sugars,
fruit sugar and grape sugar, and
about 1870 water. Honey contains
mineral elements valuable to the body
such as calcium for bone building,
iron for the blood, phosphorus for the
bones and brain and magnesium.
Being the most wholesome food, honey
is beneficial to children as we'll as
grown folks, and when children have
plenty of honey at their meals, their
craving for candy between meals is
lessened. Nutrition specialists con-
slider this a strong reason for in
Guiding honey in the child's menu.
Although some may feel that honey
is a luxury, it is really inexpensive.
For a pound of honey will go as far
as a spread for bread as a pound of
butter, and at half the cost. And
there is no waste to honey,-every
drop is eaten. 1t will keep indefinite
ly without spelling, except in the pres
ence of children.
Modern hygienic methods of honey
production make it possible to de-
liver honey to the consumer without
being touched by the hands of the
beekeeper Furthermore, honey is
so sweet that germs cannot live in it,
and it is therefore used as a remedy
for colds. Hot lemonade strongly
sweetened with honey is a wonderful
first aid for a common cold.
A more liberal use of honey in, the
home, as a spread for the children's
bread in place of syrups and molas-
ses in recipes for baked goods, for
candy making, to preserve the origin
al color of fruits in canning, as a
sweetener for the baby's milk, in fact