The combination of honey and lemon offers health benefits that involve fighting harmful serious diseases as well as the common cold, the London Daily Mail Newspaper's website, Mail Online, reports. Lemons, a citrus fruit, rank highest in their content of citric acid. This acid is instrumental to your digestive system and helps your stomach digest food better while boosting your metabolism. Because of this, you possibly can lose weight from consuming it. Adding honey to lemon juice provides more benefit with honey's antioxidant power. Honey helps fight off infection and soothes a sore throat. Before giving this combination to your child, talk to your health care provider.
Kidney Stone Prevention
MayoClinic.com indicates that by consuming a small amount of lemon juice you may actually prevent a kidney stone from occurring. Lemon juice blocks calcium from absorption in your bloodstream. Most kidney stones form from unneeded calcium in your body. Your kidneys find it difficult to get rid of large amounts of calcium. If you have this problem, it means the calcium partially stays in your bloodstream forming a cluster called a kidney stone. Before you think of self-treating your kidney stones with lemon juice, talk to your doctor and obtain her advice.
Promoting Good Health
Honey has a strong antioxidant effect that may help prevent you from getting cancer, Honey.com reports. Exposure to pollution as well as cigarette smoke and other airborne substances can cause free radicals. Their oxidizing effect damages healthy cells. The damaged cells can become cancerous.
Fighting Colon Cancer
Honey contains specific antioxidants to fight colon cancer, preventing the cancer cells from continued growth. The tumor fighting substances found in honey, such as phenylethyl dimethylcaffeate, phenylethyl caffeate and methyl caffeate, stop the tumor cell growth activity in colon cancer.
Soothing Your Throat
Sore throats occur when you suffer from a cold. Your throat becomes irritated and reddened from coughing. Drinking warm tea with lemon and honey will soothe your throat. This combination added to tea also will help you feel better with less throat discomfort, the Healthy Living website reports.
References
- Mail Online Health: Lose Weight for Christmas With the Lemon Juice Diet; Louise Atkinson; 2007
- MayoClinic.com: Kidney Stones
- Honey.com: Benefits of Honey
- "Herbal Remedies"; Andrew Chevallier; 2010
- MayoClinic.com: Is It True That Honey Calms Coughs Better Than Cough Medicine Does?
- Healthy Living: Instantly Cure Common Digestive Ailments at Home
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