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Anti-Cancer Effects of Honey
A number of scientific studies have shown the benefits of honey. Below are abstracts and links to studies that will tell you more about the different health benefits that result from eating honey.
- J Agric Food Chem. 2002 Nov 6;50(23):6923-8.
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Antimutagenic effect of various honeys and sugars against Trp-p-1.
Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
Honey has been used since ancient times as a flavorful sweetener and for its therapeutic and medicinal effects. Consumers' demand for natural, healthy products has driven renewed interest in honey's health benefits. The commonly encountered food mutagen, Trp-p-1, has been demonstrated to be mutagenic in bacteria and carcinogenic in animals. Chemically, honey is quite complex. Honey is comprised primarily of sugars; however, it contains many other potentially biologically active components, such as antioxidants. Sugars have been reported to display both mutagenic and antimutagenic effects in different systems; antioxidants often display antimutagenic activity. Little information exists about potential antimutagenic effects of honey. Antimutagenicity of honeys from seven different floral sources against Trp-p-1 was tested via the Ames assay and compared to that of a sugar analogue and to individually tested simple sugars. All honeys exhibited significant inhibition of Trp-p-1 mutagenicity; most demonstrated a linear correlation between percentage inhibition and log transformed honey concentration from 10 microg/mL to 20 mg/mL. Each displayed significant degrees of inhibition of mutagenicity above concentrations of 1 mg/mL, with individual variations in degree of effectiveness. Buckwheat honey displayed the greatest inhibition at 1 mg/mL, with slightly less effectiveness at higher concentrations. A sugar analogue demonstrated a pattern of inhibition similar to that of the honeys, with enhanced antimutagenicity at concentrations greater than 1 mg/mL. Glucose and fructose were also similar to honeys and were more antimutagenic than maltose and sucrose.
PMID: 12405798 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Blueberry honey has antibacterial activity
Canadian researchers have recently shown that blueberry and buckwheat honeys have higher antibacterial activity than regular honey.
Funding for Bee Disease Resistance Identification Announced
GenomeBC has just announced that it is starting a $2.8 million project to analyse honeybee populations for disease resistance genes. The project is led by UBC Researcher Dr. Leonard Foster, who along with Dr. Steve Pernal, a bee disease researcher with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Beaverlodge), and Dr. Katherine Baylis (UBC) will work on developing the ability to identify disease resistance genes in the bee population.
World Pollination Valued at 153 Billion Euros
French and German scientists have recently released a report in the journal Ecological Economics on the value of pollination by insect pollinators. They have uncovered that a staggering 153 billion euros or 9.5% of the world's food supply is directly dependent on insect pollination. The majority of this amount is from fruits and vegetables with oilseed crops also playing a significant part.
Treatment for IAPV
Headlines on Colony Collapse Disorder dominated the news last year and it seems that everyone has heard of it. I am still getting a constant stream of people asking about the bee deaths. One of the more common reasons that people think is the cause of CCD is cell phone towers and I am still doing my best to dissuade people from this view.
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