Honey at night: benefits and harms
Honey is a tasty and healthy product of beekeeping. It is rich in vitamins, minerals, enzymes and other biologically active components. This delicacy is suitable for consumption not only in the morning and afternoon, but also in the evening before bedtime. The natural product has a general healing and strengthening property. In order not to harm the body, you should know how to properly use honey at night, what it is best to combine with, and also study in which cases it can be harmful.
Useful qualities
Honey has sedative properties. This means that it has a beneficial effect on the nervous system, calms, actively fights insomnia, helping to fall asleep quickly. A bee product for the night will be useful for almost everyone, since most people are constantly stressed and have trouble sleeping.
A spoonful of honey at night will allow you to recover from a tiring day at work and make it easier to go to bed.
Also, this delicacy has a number of other useful properties.
- Saturates the body with vitamins, organic acids and trace elements. Thanks to this rich composition, it enhances the body's natural defenses, strengthens the immune system. Therefore, a spoonful of honey before bed will be especially useful during cold seasons.
- The product contains in its composition a number of enzymes that accelerate metabolic reactions in the body. Improving metabolism contributes to a person's weight loss. It is not surprising that because of this feature, many nutritionists advise using a small amount of honey at night.
- Accelerates the process of tissue regeneration.Makes beautiful and healthy hair and skin.
- It has anti-inflammatory, antihistamine and antiviral effects.
Honey at night can be eaten to cleanse and improve the quality of the blood.
Nutritionists recommend eating a honey treat for those people who find it difficult to do without sweets before going to bed: 20–30 grams of the product will not harm health and will not “spoil” the figure, such as chocolate or rich products. In order for honey to bring maximum benefit, you need to choose its most “healing” varieties.
View and properties
The quality of any honey will directly depend on which plants the bees collected nectar from. The most useful include several varieties.
- Lugovoi (from multi-colored). The product has pronounced sedative properties. It helps to cure gynecological diseases, has anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic and diuretic effects.
- Buckwheat. Record holder for the content of vegetable proteins and iron. The use of this honey helps to normalize blood pressure and improve the quality of sleep. If you eat it at night, you can strengthen the walls of blood vessels, make them more elastic.
- Lime. Recommended for the prevention and treatment of colds. It has antipyretic, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory effects. Helps relieve fatigue and nervous tension. Provides fast sleep.
Despite the numerous beneficial properties of honey, you need to use it both during the day and at bedtime with caution so as not to harm the body.
Harm and contraindications
Honey is a healthy product that is successfully used in cosmetology and traditional medicine. However, in some cases, its effect on health will be detrimental.First of all, it is strictly forbidden to use this product for people with individual intolerance to eliminate the risks of allergic reactions.
Also, pediatricians do not advise giving honey to children who have not reached the age of two. The fact is that bee products contain many allergens - substances that cause skin rashes and itching. From the age of two, it is recommended to gradually introduce a treat into the child's diet. In the absence of allergic reactions, it is allowed to give 1 teaspoon at night as a sedative and immunomodulatory agent. Honey is not recommended for diabetics. When it is introduced into the diet, the risks of worsening the condition are high. There are also non-absolute contraindications to the use of bee products. Honey is contraindicated:
- persons with increased acidity of gastric juice;
- obese people.
It should be used with caution in people with kidney and heart disease.
Recommendations
In order not to harm health when consuming honey at night, There are a number of important rules to remember.
- The main thing is the dosage. The recommended daily amount of the product for an adult who has no contraindications is no more than 150 grams. No matter how tasty and healthy a delicacy is, they should not be abused. Honey at night will be harmful if it is consumed in excess of the prescribed rate.
- At night, a person is allowed to eat no more than 30 grams of honey. This is the amount that can not cause harm. The use of the product in excess of 30 grams can lead to the formation of extra pounds and disruption of the functioning of some organs.
- After eating honey, you should rinse your mouth or brush your teeth. The product must not be in contact with tooth enamel for a long time: this leads to the formation and development of pathogenic microorganisms that cause caries and other diseases of the oral cavity.
To increase the benefits of drinking honey, it should be diluted in milk or water beforehand. Such a drink will not only retain all the healing properties of the beekeeping product, but will also be much easier to digest by the body.
Honey drinks
To prepare drinks, take 1 teaspoon of honey, 200 grams of bottled or filtered water. To prepare a "healing cocktail" you need to thoroughly mix these components until the honey is completely dissolved.
Honey water for the night, prepared according to this recipe, will contribute to:
- blocking the inflammatory processes occurring in the body;
- cleansing the body of toxins and toxins at the cellular level;
- fight against fungal microorganisms;
- calming the nerves;
- fat burning.
Metabolic reactions in the body can be accelerated by adding lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, ground cinnamon or ginger to such a drink.
To increase the benefits and nutritional properties of the drink, it is recommended to use not water, but milk. It contains proteins, vitamins, fats and mineral components that are perfectly absorbed by the body. In most cases, human health depends on these substances.
Doctors recommend using honey milk for colds and flu. Usually, during these diseases, a person loses his appetite. Honey with milk will help increase the caloric content and nutritional value of the diet, which is very important during the period of illness and loss of strength. Also, a milkshake with honey will make sleep stronger and longer.This property is most valuable to people suffering from insomnia.
To achieve the best effect, doctors recommend taking a warm drink. It will help thin the mucus and reduce the acidity of the gastric juice. A cold cocktail will increase acidity and can exacerbate chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
In order not to make honey water or milk a useless or harmful drink, you should not boil it or pour boiling water over the beekeeping product. With weak heat treatment, some of the beneficial components in honey are destroyed. If it is heated above 55 degrees, the process of release of carcinogens that promote the formation and development of cancer cells will begin.
For the benefits of milk with honey at night, see the following video.
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