Food
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drink
The Honey House in Clarksburg is a community treasure, making and selling Beaver Valley Gold Honey as well as raw honeycomb, specialty honeys and other bee- and honeyrelated products.
How
sweet it is! Local natural sweeteners trump sugar in every way by Emily Worts
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photography by richard GalloWay
e all know that too much of the sweet stuff can be bad for us, but sugar is a hard habit to break. substituting sweeteners like maple sap, maple syrup and honey, all of which are accessible in our area, for refined sugars could help eliminate a lot of what is bad for us without giving up the sweet flavours our taste buds crave. sugar is a natural sweetener, found in plants and fruits. however, the refining process used to make granulated sugars is what makes it bad for us.
our addiction to sugar has created an epidemic of health and immune problems including vitamin and mineral deficiencies, adrenal fatigue, diabetes and obesity. refined sugar doesn’t offer many benefits, except the sweet taste many of us are addicted to. honey and maple syrup, on the other hand, not only sweeten, they are actually good for us in moderation. add to that the fact that honey and maple are produced locally, and the choice of what to put in your next cup of tea or coffee, or add to your next batch of muffins, should be a sweet one to make. On The Bay
Summer 2011
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