Honey, Anyone? Or Please Pass the Bee Vomit. 

   For many years honey was the one food that was not only good to eat, but was one that we could depend on to be good for us, as opposed to nearly every other edible thing on the planet. 
    We’ve learned not to depend on most other foods. Fats have been fickle. Proteins have been perfidious. Sugars are shaky. Grains have had a sometimes gratuitous reputation. Carbs have been less than constant. Legumes have been consistently okay, except they operate on the basis where diminishing taste means higher food value. (I think it must be some kind of evolutionary self-preservation thing.) And then we have vegetables---but who cares anyway. 
    Now within each of these groups there are individual foods that have opted to go their own way. Either on the good side or the dark side. But foods can change their minds. Some, after being on the dark side for years, have suddenly been rehabilitated and are now on the good side. For how long is always the question. And just the opposite happens on a regular basis. It takes a person with a large computer and plenty of time to keep track of all this. 
    The problem with that? The stress of keeping track of what is good for you to eat today will in itself shorten your life.  
   Now we have honey. Through the years it has remained constantly consistent. Good for external and internal use. Everything from being chuck full of antioxidants, good for improving cholesterol, being better for diabetics than sugar, and good for lowering triglycerides. Plus, it promotes burn and wound healing. Quite a super food. 
    Then I ran into this study that explained that all of the above just wasn’t so. That honey was nothing more than a jumped- up sugar that had been taking advantage of us for years. I read to the end of the article and they explained that this research used 55 people, over a period of six weeks. I was a little put out at their having wasted my time, but have been around long enough to believe that this is similar to much of the operating parameters used in many food studies. 
    Another thing about these studies that prove one point or another: you need to make sure you know who is funding the research. Not just who is doing the research, but who is funding it. For instance, a study by the University of Nebraska showing that people who ate beef three times a day live longer than people who don’t eat at all, is interesting information. But before you start with eating all that beef, look at the fine print and you’ll probably find that maybe the study was funded by the Nebraska Beef Council. And if they did not actually pay directly for the study, you will probably find that the Beef Council just built the university a new sports center. 
    To say that many of the scientific? Studies now being done are biased is, I think, probably an understatement. 
    So where does that leave me and my body and what I eat? Eat some of everything you can stand, enjoy it, and don’t worry.