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Honey is a product made by bees from the nectar base of plants and a mixture of water and two simple sugars glucose and fructose. The more fructose syrup has the lighter color will be.

While honey does not make a lot of nutrients, beyond the simple carbohydrates, is considered a healthy sweetener option that refined white sugar.

Another benefit of honey on sugar is that it provides fewer calories per 100 grams of product value is 288 calories, while sugar contains 394 calories for the same amount.

The flavor of honey can change depending on the type of bees that produce and flowers have been used. One of the most soft and tasty is the acacias.

A honey also have been attributed, from ancient civilizations, several healing properties: among which are antiseptic, tonic, calming, diuretic and laxative. Even today, this natural sweetener retains its reputation as a remedy for respiratory diseases, especially to loosen and reduce phlegm.

Finally you share a trick with honey than you have in mind when you feel your sore throat or trouble: Try to mix a drink with two teaspoons of honey and the juice of half a lemon mixed in a glass of hot water, you will see that softens.

Proper eating habits usually make all the nutrients needed to properly practice any physical activity, and to cover all the nutritional needs and energy of the athlete or sportsman. In 90% of cases, if the person follows an appropriate diet for the type and frequency of activities carried out, not be using any supplements, especially not to risk needlessly jeopardizing the health products with little or harmful indicated.

Supplements or nutritional supplements for sports are many, some are only composed of minerals, vitamins or other only by amino acids (proteins): energy drinks, herbal extracts, etc… Read the rest of this entry »