Consumed in moderation, sugar is a helpful source of energy. That is… provided you get it from the right sources.

We humans evolved to get our sugar by eating whole foods like fruits, vegetables, and yes, even honey. Your body knows how to extract the maximum benefit from these whole foods.

Honey, in particular, has three critical healing effects…

First, honey supports your immune system and fights off harmful bacteria.

As you know, your body is under constant assault by numerous viruses and bacteria that threaten to tire you out, make you sick, and even kill you.

Fighting off this threat is key to staying healthy.

One of the vital components in honey is an enzyme called glucose oxidase. This enzyme, when exposed to oxygen, produces hydrogen peroxide — a strong acid that dissolves the cell walls of bacteria. (Most human cells have thicker cell walls and can resist the low amounts of acid honey produces.)

This makes honey a powerful tool for fighting skin infections, healing wounds, and otherwise supporting your immune system. (And its why honey is able to last for so long in your cupboard without going bad.)

Second, it supplies the “building blocks” for healthy cells.

In addition to giving you sugars, honey equips your body with a complex array of proteins, enzymes, minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, and other nutrients. The second these nutrients hit your body, they go to work…

• Tuning up your heart, lungs, stomach, brain, eyes, and skin…
• Controlling cancer-causing free-radicals and stopping cell damage in its tracks…
• Detoxifying your body of harmful pollutants and other toxins.

However, honey still has a very high sugar content (70%-85% depending on the type of honey you get.) And as just about any health official will tell you, sugar is a major cause of obesity, diabetes, and all the other chronic illnesses we see in abundance today.

So shouldn’t we avoid honey despite its antimicrobial and nutritional properties?

Well, that brings me to the third healing effect of honey. It turns out…

You’ve probably experienced just how rapidly most sugar burns in your body — how it gives you a sudden surge of energy followed shortly by a complete crash.

Yet when you eat honey, you don’t get that same “flare effect”. Instead you get a slow, even burn of energy — which you can put to use for things like working, playing sports, or spending time with your family.

That’s because all the extra enzymes and nutrients in honey not only help the body rebuild itself — they also regulate how the body uses the sugar.

It’s kind of like the flame on your stove.

Contained and controlled by the burner, valves, and the rest of the stove, you can safely use the fire for cooking.

But take that flame out of context — by putting it on your living room floor for example — it can quickly burn out of control and cause all kinds of damage.

In the same way, sugars eaten outside their normal context of whole, complete foods run riot in our bodies — leaving us exhausted, overweight, and sick.

See, there are several major problems with honey. It’s simple. It’s un-patentable. And it’s not as cheap to manufacture in mass quantities as refined-sugar.

That makes selling processed sugar far more PROFITABLE than selling honey.

How profitable?

Well, according to Business Communications Company, Inc. (BCC) research, the sugar industry was worth over $77.5 billion in 2012. (And that doesn’t include the even larger market for selling processed foods containing that sugar.)

But this is only half of the story…

As I mentioned earlier, sugar causes a spike in your blood-sugar levels followed by a HUGE crash.

Because your blood-sugar level is a key signal for appetite and hunger, this crash triggers major warning alarms in your body. Your brain starts thinking that you’re starving to death.

And in response, it compels you to eat immediately — especially foods that have quick, cheap calories like sugar.

You’ve probably felt those powerful cravings before… Those times where you just have to eat a sugary donut or piece of candy (even after eating a full meal).

They’re virtually impossible to resist. (No matter how much willpower you have.)

The end result is you end up eating even more sugar, which creates another spike and crash in your blood-sugar levels.

And so the more sugar you eat, the more your body craves it. It’s an unending cycle.

Said another way…

Many researchers call sugar “the most addictive drug on the planet” — saying it’s even more addictive than crack-cocaine or heroin.

Big food companies know this.

They’re well aware of how easy it is to make you hooked on sugar (and in turn, the products they sell).

So they go to extreme lengths to convince you to keep buying…

• They spend millions of dollars in advertising each year to push foods scientifically proven to harm our health (a vast majority of which gets aimed at young children).
• They “bribe” government officials to prevent ANY health regulations on sugar (just like the tobacco industry did to try and stop restrictions on the sale of cigarettes).
• They sponsor bogus scientific studies and research to show their products are “healthy” and are “not bad for you”.

It’s all one big And because of it…

We get ballooning levels of obesity, chronic fatigue, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer (even among children).

We get the bill for five, six, and even seven-figure medical expenses.

We get a deteriorating quality of life… more weight gain, more sickness, more pain.

And as for honey… you’re never going to hear about it on TV. No one’s going to run a Super Bowl ad for raw, local honey.

For all the scientific research standing behind honey, big industry has done everything possible to drown it with a sea of marketing and manipulation.