20 Important And Amazing Honey Bee Facts

I think we should get ourselves some honey bee facts, after all so many healing and health-promoting opportunities for the humans begin with this little busy creature.

As you read the following 20 honey bee facts, you will be so intrigued just like me by this teensy-weensy fellow's extraordinary abilities.

1. The honey bee has been around for millions of years.

2. Honey bees, scientifically also known as Apis mellifera, are environmentally friendly and are vital as pollinators.

3. It is the only insect that produces food eaten by man.

4. Honey is the only food that includes all the substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water; and it's the only food that contains "pinocembrin", an antioxidant associated with improved brain functioning.

5. Honey bees have 6 legs, 2 compound eyes made up of thousands of tiny lenses (one on each side of the head), 3 simple eyes on the top of the head, 2 pairs of wings, a nectar pouch, and a stomach.

6. Honey bees have 170 odorant receptors, compared with only 62 in fruit flies and 79 in mosquitoes. Their exceptional olfactory abilities include kin recognition signals, social communication within the hive, and odor recognition for finding food. Their sense of smell was so precise that it could differentiate hundreds of different floral varieties and tell whether a flower carried pollen or nectar from metres away.

7. The honey bee's wings stroke incredibly fast, about 200 beats per second, thus making their famous, distinctive buzz. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour.

8. The average worker bee produces about 1/12th teaspoon of honey in her lifetime.

9. A hive of bees will fly 90,000 miles, the equivalent of three orbits around the earth to collect 1 kg of honey.

10. It takes one ounce of honey to fuel a bee's flight around the world.

11. A honey bee visits 50 to 100 flowers during a collection trip.

12. The bee's brain is oval in shape and only about the size of a sesame seed, yet it has remarkable capacity to learn and remember things and is able to make complex calculations on distance travelled and foraging efficiency.

13. A colony of bees consists of 20,000-60,000 honeybees and one queen. Worker honey bees are female, live for about 6 weeks and do all the work.

14. The queen bee can live up to 5 years and is the only bee that lays eggs. She is the busiest in the summer months, when the hive needs to be at its maximum strength, and lays up to 2500 eggs per day. Click here to learn more about the Honey Bee Life Cycle,

15. Larger than the worker bees, the male honey bees (also called drones), have no stinger and do no work at all. All they do is mating.

16. Each honey bee colony has a unique odour for members' identification.

17. Only worker bees sting, and only if they feel threatened and they die once they sting. Queens have a stinger, but they don't leave the hive to help defend it.

18. It is estimated that 1100 honey bee stings are required to be fatal.

19. Honey bees communicate with one another by "dancing".

20. During winter, honey bees feed on the honey they collected during the warmer months. They form a tight cluster in their hive to keep the queen and themselves warm.

The more I learnt about honey bee facts; honey's great creator -the honey bee itself, its highly organized society, how it acts with such intricate cooperation, and the various bee products, the more I admire and respect this amazing creature.

 It is no wonder why sometimes the colony is called a superorganism.

"Unique among all God's creatures, only the honeybee improves the environment and preys not on any other species." ~ Royden Brown

"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live?" ~ Albert Einstein

                      Source:    http://www.benefits-of-honey.com/

Facts Plus 10 Dirty Foods That Can Make You Sick

Did you know that in the United States, Farmers use 1.5 billion pounds of pesticides and that these pesticides end up in about 1/2 the food we eat? Why? Only about 1 percent of  food shipments in the US are tested for pesticides..

Kind of scary, isn't it?
Some Apple Growers use 24 different types of pesticides on apples!

Doughnuts:
In the beginning, doughnuts were made of raised dough and a nut was baked into the center...That is how the word "doughnut" came about!"  The doughnut was one of New England's earliest sweets, although it did not originate in New England.

Did you know that about 88% of all milk is water and only about 12% is solid
substance that has food value?

10 Dirty Foods That Can Make You Sick

1. Chicken

In one study cited by Men's Health, more than 40 percent of chicken samples contained bacteria that can sicken, including E. coli. 

2. Ground Beef
 
Simply because of the way ground beef is made through heavy processing, it has the potential to be loaded with deadly E. coli bacteria and more. 

 

3. Ground Turkey
 
One in four packages of ground turkey tested by Men's Health contained bacteria. This becomes a greater concern as more people substitute ground turkey for ground beef thinking it's a healthier alternative. 

4. Oysters
 
Beware of raw oysters! Many are tainted not only with bacteria, but also the Norovirus. 

5. Eggs
 
The incredible edible egg is also associated with more than 600,000 cases of food poisoning each year and more than 300 deaths. Cook eggs completely and never eat them raw. 

6. Cantaloupe
 
Cantaloupe rinds often contain dangerous bacteria that are hard to wash away. Cut through that rind with a knife and the bacteria can be transferred to the fruit. 

7. Peaches
 
This favorite juicy summer fruit is dangerous because the peach fuzz makes it difficult to clean off all the pesticides. 

8. Pre-Packaged Tossed Salads

These bagged salads are one of the greatest conveniences of the past decade, but they can also be one of the biggest sources of food poisoning since the contents are often contaminated with E. Coli, according to Men's Health. 

9. Cold Cuts
 
It looks like delicious shaved ham or turkey to you. But it could contain the dangerous bacteria Listeria, which is especially risky for infants and the elderly. 

Listeria can be spread by the deli slicer, and it can even grow in a cold refrigerator. What can you do? Experts advise you to transfer the deli meat to a fresh package when you get home and only buy enough for one week at a time. 

10. Scallions

If these green onions are left uncooked, they have the potential to become bacterial breeding grounds. They've also been linked to fatal outbreaks of Hepatitis-A.

Achieve Good Health And Looks

Now a days Health has become an important thing that needs to be taken care of. Did you know that if you don't take proper care of your health, it can also impact your looks. 

 Don't get shocked or afraid. I have got some Health tips for you which will definitely help take care of your health and looks. If you are healthy you will automatically be able to look smarter, work faster. What you eat is important and how you eat it is important.

Below are some tips to maintain good health and get good looks in just 2 weeks:-


Exercise
The most important thing of all is proper exercise. Our body muscles help us a lot in recovering from any infection and that completely depends on how our muscles react at that time, "As all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

 Now a days people say they don't have time to exercise, but exercise not only means going to a gym and working out,  but a 20 minute walk a day also helps your muscles stay strong and keeps your body fit.


Eat healthy breakfast as you wake up
Once you wake up have a healthy breakfast. If you stay hungry for long time, your body starts starving and if you have your breakfast in that mode of your body, the food that you eat is stored as a fat in your body which if done on a regular basis will get you a Fat body and Huge Belly.

Eat after every 2 hours You need to break your meals into small parts and eat it after every two hours to gain those extra weight. Now you might me thinking what this does? So the answer to this is that this keeps your digestive system properly and also burns calories during the digestion process.

Eat Light food
As the day passes by you need to eat lighter food which in return helps in
managing your weight

Drink Lots of Water Water is the best medicine to control hunger, maintain good skin, control
dehydration, burn calories. If you drink a lot of water you need to be rest assured about skin aging. Water keeps your body away from all kinds of disease, to precise if the water is pure

Don't smoke or Drink
Smoking and consuming Liquor is a very dangerous thing for health. Smoking
and drinking is one of the major reasons for improper health and in most cases death. The sooner you quit, is the better.

Eat Fruits and Veggies
A healthy diet is that which is full of vitamins and nutrients. Fruits and vegetables consist of nutrients and nor calories, which means that you can eat to the fullest without fearing that you will grow fat and also it helps getting a clear and fair skin.

Avoid Junk or Oily food
Junk food has nowadays become a daily necessity for people who are working as they don't have any option rather than eating junk food. The people who consume junk food are the targets of bad health specially. Junk food or oily food has become one of the major reasons for hair fall, increase in weight, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and lots more. This is the most important thing to be taken care of.
Proper Sleep
There should be a proper sleep schedule to be maintained. A person must at least sleep for 8 hours a day. Proper sleep boosts our immune system and helps prevent disease and also keeps our mind and mood active.