RE: 7 Amazing health benefits of drinking a glass of warm water with honey every morning
I checked your profile after reading this post and I am seriously questioning your claims of being a medical student from this post. There have been many studies that have effectively disproved multiple claims in this post.
First:
Drinking a glass of warm honey water each day will help enhance your immunity to allergies. Regular intake of small amounts of honey will bit by bit desensitise your body to the impacts of pollen and other allergens, so it could be an approach to help you reduce sensitivity to allergens.
Bees make honey from nectar, not pollen but there would be a very minute amount of flower pollen in the honey, except that most people are not allergic to the pollen of flowers or at least are not symptomatic of flower pollen because it is very sticky and doesn't float through the air very well, instead they are allergic to pollens form things like trees and grasses which will be nearly non-existent in honey meaning you would need a lot of honey in order to have any effect.
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In my second source they looked at the effect of honey on allergy rhinitis (inflammation of the mucous membrane inside the nose) and the people eating honey were taking roughly 1g/kg each day (which would cost me around $33 a month for natural honey and $23 a month for regular, I am a college student, that is almost a third of my food budget) and was only more effective than the control group (with placebo) after the 8 week mark (so it wold cost me between $43 and $66 for slight, non-permanent, improvement for my allergies)
I can attack every point you made in this post and back it up with data, but I used a similar number of sources to counter one of your points as you have for all of your points...
I don't think you really understood my point there. In my write up I said "...so it could be an approach to help you reduce sensitivity to allergens". The key word here is could which according to oxford dictionaries says;
My point is that many of these arguments have tons of research that actively debunks the claims or only half-heartedly supports them and only does so because they haven't gone through a true peer review. That was using one example to show how weak it is to be claimed as an "Amazing health benefit of drinking a glass of warm water with honey every morning " and it was one of the stronger of the claims. The other strong claim is with honey being able to reverse antibiotic resistance (it can't btw, bacteria can develop a resistance to the honey just like all others and it isn't a very strong antibiotic and only affects a specific type of antibiotic resistance, generalized claims are bad for arguments)
Saying there are benefits to drinking honey, fine, but back up your claims. You use two very questionable (and very unreliable) sources. Like want me to start pulling out problems with your post and back each one up completely?
So just to clarify, since that one reason discussed above is potentially a benefit, does that mean that this post only outlines 6 true benefits to drinking a warm glass of honey? (the answer is no btw, if you want a full reason then I will gladly tear each invalid point apartt)