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The products of the hive, honey,
pollen and royal jelly, have always been widely used as a food beneficial to health,
fitness, and even daily beauty. Used and consumed to prevent certain diseases, they were
also attributed numerous, curative and therapeutic qualities.
In the last few decades, research teams have scientifically tested the knowledge accrued over thousands of years, in order to analyse the true properties and rationally determine what humankind can expect from honey and its derivatives for well-being and health . In the light of their research and experiments, it is now apparent that the products incontestably have many nutritional and energetic benefits, and that their daily use has no counter-indications. Being 100% natural, these products are non-toxic and have no side effects. |
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Honey
Honey is essentially a food rich in simple sugars directly assimilable by the body. It has enormous sweetening power, equal to or even greater than that of sugar. But its advantage over sugar is that it contains a number of mineral salts an enhances their assimilation and fixation, especially for calcium. Its high energetic power and its nutritional values make it a food for physical effort , recommended for sportsmen , before and after effort. Its dynamogenic and stimulant action on the heart increases stamina and favours the body's powers of recuperation and prolonged efforts. Generally, when consumed daily, honey increases resistance to physical and intellectual fatigue, strengthens the body against the stresses and strains of life, and favours the assimilation and digestion of other foods. In a healthy diet, between 30 and 40gr should be consumed each day as a minimum. |
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Pollen contains all the elements essential to life, elements that act in harmony and in synergy and which are not synthetically produced in laboratories.
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It is particularly rich in proteins, vitamins and trace elements. It is advised to consume it periodically as part of one's diet (two courses for 3 months a year, for example) or on a daily basis either pure (in natural grains, capsule form) or blended with honey , at about 15 to 20gr a day for an adult or 10 to 15gr for a child. In a preventive diet, it improves physical and intellectual capacities, increases resistance to tiredness and reduces aggressivity, also compensating for vitamin or mineral deficiencies.
Royal jelly has natural beneficial properties that, like pollen and honey, make it an essential supplement to our diet . When taken preventively to maintain health and well-being, it generally increases energy, improves resistance to stress, physical and intellectual fatigue, and delays the effects of the natural ageing process, particularly for the skin, hair and nails. Like pollen, it can be consumed either mixed with honey or pure, for a minimum period of 6 weeks, repeated, and with an average adult consumption of 500mg a day.
The wax gathered from the combs in the hive has many uses: it is used to make wax comb foundations for beekeeping, but also for making candles and polishes. It is also used in electronics, in the weapons industry, the textile industry, in glassworks, electrotyping and in the paper-making industry. It is used in agriculture as an ingredient of grafting mastic, in medicine for various balms, ointments and suppositories, and in lipsticks, creams and various other beauty products.
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