Food is our medicine

[Cow Poke]

anecdotal evidence proves that 99.999% of facts and statistics are just made up on the spot.

And Abraham Lincoln said that it's even worse on the internet!

[Sparko]

And Abraham Lincoln said that it's even worse on the internet!

The internet was invented by Ben Franklin.

[Cow Poke]

The internet was invented by Ben Franklin.

Al Gore would disagree!

[Jedidiah]

More on the topic of honey. Buy from someone local you trust. The honey in the stores is seriously suspect. The info in the linked site may be extreme, but there is a lot of truth in it none-the-less.

http://www.naturalnews.com/034102_ho...mer_alert.html

The claim is "More than 75 percent of all 'honey' sold in grocery stores contains no honey at all, by definition." The part about contaminated honey from China is scary enough by itself.

[Cow Poke]

More on the topic of honey. Buy from someone local you trust. The honey in the stores is seriously suspect. The info in the linked site may be extreme, but there is a lot of truth in it none-the-less.

http://www.naturalnews.com/034102_ho...mer_alert.html

The claim is "More than 75 percent of all 'honey' sold in grocery stores contains no honey at all, by definition." The part about contaminated honey from China is scary enough by itself.

When I saw this part of the article....
For the investigation, Vaughn Bryant, one of the nation's leading melissopalynologists, or experts in identifying pollen in honey, and director of the Palynology Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University, evaluated more than 60 products labeled as "honey" that had been purchased by FSN from ten states and the District of Columbia.
I knew it had to be true!

My wife works for Texas A&M Extension, and knows of this man's work.

We always buy our honey from a local market from an actual beekeeper.

[Jedidiah]

There is at least one explanation for pollen free honey that does not mean imitation. Dubious honey can be forced through super find filters to remove everything. This is, however another less than honest approach to things.

[Catholicity]

There is at least one explanation for pollen free honey that does not mean imitation. Dubious honey can be forced through super find filters to remove everything. This is, however another less than honest approach to things.

Hi Grandpa. Well I'm kinda not into "natural news" its actually a little on the conspiracy theorist side for me. there are some grains of truth. Such as contamination from china, but.....most of it is bunk. I do agree that the best honey is general local unfiltered and raw. Which if we can we buy, if not, we purchase from whole foods or trader joes.

[Jedidiah]

I have to admit, C26, that I tend the same way. However there is enough truth to this one to make it valuable. We as a nation are very suspicious of honey from China. Many tons have been rejected. That means that it is transshipped to another country that is less picky, and shipped to the USA as from that country. I would not eat grocery store honey for those reasons. Plus, I manage to collect my own, that is my bees collect it for me, and it tastes so much better most folks would not believe the difference.

Yeas ago I had a friend at work. (Yep even Grampa Jed) I was looking for a hive location in his general area and he wanted a hive there for the benefits of his kids. At the end of the year I offered him some honey. "No thanks, I don't care for honey." Later he said, he would like some for his dad who did like honey. Somewhere along the way he tasted his dad's supply and came to me saying, "Is that honey offer still good. I really like that honey."

[Cow Poke]

I used to drink a cup of black tea every afternoon with a spoon of honey in it -- I'll have to get back to that.

[disciple100]

It is also good to increase the number of spices one uses because of the many side benefits they contain, such as ginger, turmeric, rosemary, etc. Variety is the spice of life.

[RBerman]

i watch out all your opinions and want to share my opinion with you that is truth that our food is our medicine because it depends upon on our quantity if we take lite and fresh foods then we are save from every diseases and if we take over food then we are involve in many diseases.

Certainly good nutrition (and healthy living in general) helps deal with illness of all sorts. Not to the point where we're immune to disease, but it helps.

[Cow Poke]

Certainly good nutrition (and healthy living in general) helps deal with illness of all sorts. Not to the point where we're immune to disease, but it helps.

And stepping on the pointy end of rusty nails still creates a problem.

[disciple100]

And stepping on the pointy end of rusty nails still creates a problem.

There's a life lesson in there somewhere, CP, I just know it!

[Cow Poke]

There's a life lesson in there somewhere, CP, I just know it!

Maye we should start a thread. Or a seminar!

[disciple100]

Maye we should start a thread. Or a seminar!

Or a semi-thread!