Date:   11/17/2011 6:20:54 PM ( 14 y ago)
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Bee Pollen: The World's Most Perfect Food

By Barbara Minton

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Bee pollen is often referred to as nature's most complete food. Pollen harvested from a diverse selection of geographic areas contains all the essential components of life in a good tasting, chewable, easily digested, and highly bio-available form that can be consumed by anyone from young children to the very old. Because these nourishing and rejuvenating elements have been crafted into the most super of superfoods by nature, they have the added benefits of perfect synergy. Bee pollen also offers healing, with interesting research studies documenting its medicinal effects.

The bee has been revered and deified in many religious cultures. The Hindu text Rig-Veda, written in Sanskrit between 2000 and 3000BC, speaks of bees with awe. Vishnu, the powerful preserver and protector of the Hindu trinity, is frequently symbolized by a blue bee sitting on a lotus flower. Kama, the Indian god of love, carries a bow strung with a chain of entwined bees. Cultures worshipping fertility goddesses such as Venus, Diana, Ceres, or Iris used the bee as a symbol for scared festivities. Next to man, no other living creature has been so highly esteemed by so many diverse cultures.

The bee is believed to be over 80 million years old. The Bible, the Torah, the Koran, the Talmund, the scrolls of the Orient, and the writings of the ancient Greeks and Romans all praised the healing and health properties of foods created by bees. The bee's nectar is mentioned 68 times in the Bible.

The old Caucasus mountaineers used to be beekeepers and knew that the matter from bees enhanced health. They would sell their bee products at the market and eat the leftovers. They exercised every day by working outdoors, got plenty of fresh air, and ate a whole foods diet. Many of them were reported to be the same weight they were at age 18, free of disease, and more than 150 years old.

D.C. Jarvis, M.D. and Charles Mraz, a beekeeper in Vermont, searched to find cases of cancer or deaths from cancer among beekeepers. They were unable to find any cancer deaths. One keeper had Hodgkins disease which he contracted before becoming a beekeeper. He was cured of it once he started his new occupation and began consuming bee products.

Pollen is the male seed of flowers. It is essential for the fertilization of most plants. All the varieties of flowers in the universe put forth a dusting of pollen, including the many fruiting agricultural crops. One teaspoon of bee pollen contains approximately 2.5 billion flower pollen grains, each of which has the capacity to supply those factors necessary for the fertilization and reproduction of the particular species.

Bees make bee pollen to feed their young. As with all species except man, bees seek out and create the most nutritious food to feed to their off spring. Bee pollen contains 40% protein, about half of which is in the form of free amino acids that are ready to be assimilated and used by the body.

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