We just got in local honey from Flowery Branch..Great health benefits !
Why do I include honey in my diet that is local to my region?
Allergies (aka chronic rhinitis).
The information I am going to share comes from a few years of investigating the correlation between allergies and local honey. I have summarized some information from an article at Discovery Health and Tom Ogren’s personal website.
When pollen enters the body, histamines are released and create tissue inflammation and irritation. It’s just an autoimmune response. Antihistamines come in many forms, but they can cause dryness, drowsiness, insomnia, anxiety, heart palpitations, etc.
Most of us took Biology 101, so I’m not going to get into all of that. All you need to remember is flowers make seeds after pollen from a stamen of one flower attaches to the pistil of another flower. Yes, kids, that is the miracle of pollination.
Some plants can pollinate themselves, while others have pollen that travels on the wind. Bees, and other insects, help flowering plants reproduce because the pollen gets stuck to the insects when they are hopping from plant to plant to find nectar. Some of the pollen stays attached to the bees once they return to their hives, thereby transporting the pollen to the regurgitated nectar (yep, the first step in the honey making process). The pollen is trapped in the honeycomb and then we consume the pollen that is in the liquid goodness we call honey.
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