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The thing with honey is that it is rare and seasonal in nature. Once a month/season/year is probably highly beneficial, daily is likely to be a slow suicide.
by juskrey 6y ago
The thing with honey is that it is rare and seasonal in nature. Once a month/season/year is probably highly beneficial, daily is likely to be a slow suicide.
- germinalphrase 6y agoRare and seasonal? It literally does not spoil on any timescale that matters.
- airhead969 6y agoDon't preppers keep it as an alternative to sugar or as a carbs calorie source?
- poopoopeepee 6y agoIts production is seasonal. Availability follows. Ok?
- germinalphrase 6y agoMy point is availability doesn’t follow. That it has a functionally infinite shelf life means that the seasonality of production is not relevant. I can go to my big box grocery store and buy several honeys that are produced within 50 miles of my Midwestern city. I can buy several more that are produced elsewhere. Year round.
- poopoopeepee 6y ago> rare and seasonal in nature I don't know what else to add. You've gone too far off the path. It's pretty simple what OP wrote. Makes a person think about nature, evolution, adaption, is-this-healthy. Ok?
- core-questions 6y agoYou know what it makes me think? You're chasing extremely marginal gains in life expectancy. Yes, there's a good chance that in the caveman days I would only have had honey in rare circumstance when I found a good beehive and had time to process it. It would have been consumed fairly quickly unless I had extremely advanced levels of time preference and self control. I also would probably have been dead by my mid-30s. Now, I can get high quality, delicious, dark local honey - a year's supply at a tablespoon a day, more than you need - for less than what the average HN poster makes in an hour. I don't eat that much of it, usually just use it as a maple syrup substitute for a nice weekend breakfast, and should be able to live until my 80s as long as I keep in shape with some basic exercise on a regular basis. > You've gone too far off the path. What path, friend? Where is the path? Where are the markings, and who put them there? There is no path.
- poopoopeepee 6y ago> What path, friend? A person says, "honey seems like a rare seasonal treat in nature for most humans. Should we be eating a lot of it?". Same question gets asked about soy, gluten, beef, etc. It's more of a nutrition observation. It just seems like you missed the whole spirit of the thought.
- airhead969 6y agoCurious: Rare and seasonal how? Most honey lasts for years or decades if willing to put up with some crystallization. All things in moderation... . A dab of honey in tea once a day can't be that many micromorts.
- poopoopeepee 6y agoIts production is seasonal. Availability follows. Ok?
- airhead969 6y agoWell, can't we buy some and keep it? I know the fresh stuff is tasty, but let's not go Winnie the Pooh. :)
- poopoopeepee 6y ago> rare and seasonal in nature I don't know what else to add. You've gone too far off the path. It's pretty simple what OP wrote. Makes a person think about nature, evolution, adaption, is-this-healthy. Ok?
- hnuser123456 6y agoIt's pretty well known honey has an extremely long shelf life due to anti-bacterial substances not found in other sources of sugar.