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In reply to the discussion: Study: (Perhaps) Honey isn’t as healthy as we think [View all]Codeine
(25,586 posts)13. Arsenic and cyanide occur in nature as well.
All kinds of wildly unhealthy shit occurs in nature. The idea that because it's natural it's healthy is magical thinking at best.
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Yes, but local honey is effective for helping mitigate pollen based allergies, and studies have
peacebird
Sep 2015
#1
not true. but it has to be LOCAL honey. when i visited texas. the honey i used for milwaukee only
pansypoo53219
Sep 2015
#36
Perhaps that's why our local honey DOES work for us. It is raw, unprocessed, straight from our hives
peacebird
Sep 2015
#40
Do you work for pharma? Look, we use honey, herbs, exercise and organic foods. We no longer need
peacebird
Sep 2015
#119
Anecdotally local honey has worked for our family. We no longer need allergy meds.
peacebird
Sep 2015
#39
Did I say there was scientific basis, no. i said it has worked for us. Snark much?
peacebird
Sep 2015
#118
You have to make sure that your beliefs are safe from evidence-based challenges!
HuckleB
Sep 2015
#130
It is processed - pre-digested - by the bees. I understood it to be a very high glycemic index food.
RadiationTherapy
Sep 2015
#7
Correct. What we are talking about an appeal to nature fallacy and As is natural and disproves it nt
LostOne4Ever
Sep 2015
#72
The post that spawned this subthread was giving a counter example to the appeal to nature fallacy
LostOne4Ever
Sep 2015
#76
Except that no one is claiming that everything that occurs in nature should be eaten
villager
Sep 2015
#78
What industrial/corporate food products -- or their attendant pesticides, antibiotics, etc.
villager
Sep 2015
#82
Ah, so there's never any conflict of interest, or looking-the-other-way at the FDA.
villager
Sep 2015
#87
I'm responding at the same level as the poster who thinks 'natural food' = good!
X_Digger
Sep 2015
#24
Another one in regards to insulin response, is bottle down agave touted as a natural
Person 2713
Sep 2015
#15
And yet whether you know it or not you're getting pretty much the same thing
Major Nikon
Sep 2015
#97
I just posted this but yours is much more informative. I will delete mine.
Hollingsworth
Sep 2015
#32
Makes sense. Sugar is sugar. The problem with HFCS is that it's in so many things.
Marr
Sep 2015
#57
Y'all go right on ahead and eat your poison, and I'll stick with my natural diet that has
Zorra
Sep 2015
#63
I suspect the reward is countering the irrational nonsense of people who call things "poison"
Major Nikon
Sep 2015
#95
Seriously, you think people are going to switch from honey to HFCS? bwahahahaha!
djean111
Sep 2015
#89
There is sucrose for energy. No vitamins, no minerals, nothing that cannot be gotten from
djean111
Sep 2015
#126
Carbohydrates are a macronutrient and half to most of your calories should come from them
Major Nikon
Sep 2015
#128
I am almost 70, extremely active. Lately, been walking to the grocery store, almost three miles
djean111
Sep 2015
#129