It's
happening in small, private clinics...
And
it's happening in the largest, most respected hospitals in the
world...
A
rising tide of doctors and health care providers are now urging their
patients eat this "life-giving" sugar every single day.
They're
not just recommending it to give a "slightly better alternative"
to other sweeteners either. They're
prescribing it to treat life-threatening diseases, heal chronic
conditions, and keep people looking and feeling their very best.
If
you guessed honey, then you're absolutely right. For we've all heard
about how honey is a remarkable substance. We've heard about how it
"doesn't go bad". Or about how archaeologists found
unspoiled, 2000-year-old honey in an Egyptian tomb.
For
example, honey was the most popular ancient Egyptian healing remedy
(and was mentioned over 500 times in 900 remedies.)
Hippocrates (the
father of modern medicine) used honey as a treatment for pain,
dehydration, and fever. And this isn't just some "folk
remedy" discredited
by modern science either. Researchers (in thousands of peer-reviewed
papers) continue to uncover just how healing honey can be.
I
still remember how one patient, Rachel, just stood there, staring at
me with her mouth open.
"Hold
on. Let me get this straight." she said. "Did I really just
hear my doctor tell me to give my seven-year-old son honey?!?"
I
nodded. "Just a spoonful before he goes to bed. The cough will
clear up in no time."
Her
son, Kevin, had just recovered from the flu. And while the fever and
nausea had faded, his cough hadn't.
Overcome
by a fit of coughing every five minutes, he couldn't sleep at night
(which made him cranky and miserable all day.)
Rachel
was at her wit's end. The sleepless nights left her exhausted. And
she'd done everything she could think of to help her son... Lots of
water... Cough syrup... Even antibiotics.
And
here I was, a physician, prescribing something you'd normally drizzle
over oatmeal or spread on toast.
Truth
be told though, I could sympathize with her skepticism. For when I
first heard about honey's life-giving properties...
