HONEY AND ITS CONSTITUENTS

HONEY AND IT'S CONSTITUENTS

          According to Wikipedia, honey is a thick , sweet  food substance that is produced by bees or other related insects. The Quran,  in Quran chapter 47 v 15 spoke about honey. Also,  In Quran chapter 16 v 68-69 Allah spoke about bee and honey. Likewise the Bible in proverb 16v 24.

                Honey is a very useful substance because of the elements and nutrients it contains. Before i discuss the importance and uses of honey, I would like to discuss it's constituents first.

CONSTITUENTS OF HONEY

         Honey contains over eighty useful nutrients which ranges from rare to surplus. This makes me gather them under three subheadings 

 PROTEIN

        Since home is much of calories,  it contains a lower amount of protein. The protein contained in honey is about 0.06g.

VITAMINS

          Honey contains all vitamin B complex, vitamins A,  B,  C,  D,  E,and K. There also other trace elements embedded in honey. Elements like  calcium,  phosphorous, magnesium, manganese, sulphur, potassium,  chlorine, iodine etc. Are contained in honey. Each having very important usefulness as I will be discussing later.

CARBOHYDRATES

         The major composition of honey is carbohydrates. Carbohydrates cover around 82% of honey. The carbohydrates present in honey can be broken down into one,  monosaccharides fructose which is about 38.2% two, monosaccharides  glucose  which is about 31% and lastly, di-saccharides which is approximately 9%. Di saccharides includes :sucrose, maltose, isomaltose, maltulose, turanose and kojibiose. It is also present in honey, some oligosaccharides. They are about 4.2%. They include, erlose, theanderose and panose, formed from incomplete breakdown of the higher saccharides present in nectar and honeydew.

Since your first wealth is your health, join me in the next post for advantages of honey

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE

       This is a very useful proverb in the life of human. Before uncovering the reason why it is useful,  I would like us to know  the meaning of the two distinct word in the proverb in relation to health and fitness PREVENTION AND CURE.  Prevention is all  measures taken to avoid jumping into diseases or ailments. While Cure is all the measure taken to be healed from a disease or ailment. Comparing the two measures,  here are the breakdown of the results which is always in favour of prevention. 

•         Prevention is better than cure because when you prevent ailment,  you will be totally free from that ailment, but when you cure an ailment,  you will be partially out of the ailment. No matter how effective the cure is, it won't be the same as not being ill.

•          Prevention is better than cure because, when you prevent ailment you spend lesser as compared to when you cure an ailment. Taking for instance,  a person that is taking a balanced diet will not spend apart from the money he eats with but if you don't take a balanced diet and you eventually  need a food supplement,  you will have to pay extra. 

•           Prevention is better than cure because if you prevent an ailment you will not witness distress at all but if you choose to cure an ailment, no matter how,  you should have felt distress.

•            Prevention is better than cure because prevention of an ailment saves your time. This is due to the fact that you will not be wailed down at anytime. But when you choose to cure,  you will have be wailed down. Therefore,  your time will be wasted. Having wasted your time,  you have wasted many resources. 

        With the above points,  you will see that in all ways, prevention is always better than cure. My advice to you is that you should always try to prevent yourself from disease and ailments and don't wait till you start running helter skelter for the cure of ailments. 

          Conclusively,  the advantages of this proverb is not limited to the field of health only,  it is applicable to all human endeavour but we are able to figure out it to be in line with health due to the fact that this blog is an Health focusing blog.