Health benefits of honey

[stevesmith]

Honey is a combination of sugar like glucose and fructose, and minerals.It also includes the vitamins like Vitamin B1, B2, C, B6, B5 and B3 this is due to nectar and pollen.
Thus honey is very much beneficial for health..

•It strengthens the heartbeat and prevents form heart attacks.
•It cures from arthritis.
•It cures toothache.
•It also helps to increase life-span.
•It is very much beneficial for weight loss.
•It makes a person more alert and flexible.
•It cures deafness.
•It also helps to treat bone and stomach cancer.
•It is a great source of antioxidants which plays an important role in the prevention of cancer as well as heart disease.
•It supports blood formation.

[MichaelShantz]

That beats the snot out of my snake oil.

[Gibbus]

I'm all about the health benefits as anyone, and it can help make a nice selling push, but, with the exception of the antioxidants, is there any actual research to back any of these claims? (I would think if it cured deafness, toothaches, and arthritis, we wouldn't have deafness, toothaches, and arthritis around)
I am hesitant to claim anything positive that can be easily refuted later, as it will weaken my argument for the true benefits. (History is filled with this - smoking aides digestion, leeches, currative mercury, hair perms for men, Abba, etc, etc)

[sqkcrk]

What is the prescribed doasge? How many milligrams of honey should I consume per day to address my desired weightloss?

What? Please speak up.

[jim lyon]

My guess is the op is a prank and this site would best served by ignoring it.

[honeyman46408]

Thats my feelings too Jim.

I am hesitant to claim anything positive that can be easily refuted later

I tell people that ask questions about health benifits of honey that "it helps a lot of people but not all people"

Oh what was it you said my $4K herring aids arent working verry good today