Guest guest Posted March 7, 2008 Report Share Posted March 7, 2008 Bee Pollen - A Budget Friendly Food for Health and Healing By Barbara L. Minton, NaturalNews.com, 3/6/2008 http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2008/03/bee-pollen-beats-vitamin-pills.ht\ ml <http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2008/03/bee-pollen-beats-vitamin-pills.h\ tml> (NaturalNews) 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. All the nutritive and rejuvenating elements contained in expensive, whole food vitamin pills can be found in bee pollen. But since these elements are crafted into the most super of superfoods by nature, they have the added benefits of perfect synergy. Pollen also offers healing, with interesting research studies documenting its medicinal effects… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 What is the vitamin profile of bee pollen? I suspect it goes not have nearly the RDA of most vitamins. Alobar On 3/7/08, hivehealth <editor wrote: > > Bee Pollen - A Budget Friendly Food for Health and Healing > > By Barbara L. Minton, NaturalNews.com, 3/6/2008 > > http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2008/03/bee-pollen-beats-vitamin-pills.ht\ > ml > <http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2008/03/bee-pollen-beats-vitamin-pills.h\ > tml> > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 My Jar lists as follows, B6 with a ratio of 400-1, 35%protein, 15-25% Amino acids, 40%carbs...and states that it will not contribute fat to the body. Alobar <Alobar wrote: What is the vitamin profile of bee pollen? I suspect it goes not have nearly the RDA of most vitamins. Alobar On 3/7/08, hivehealth <editor wrote: > > Bee Pollen - A Budget Friendly Food for Health and Healing > > By Barbara L. Minton, NaturalNews.com, 3/6/2008 > > http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2008/03/bee-pollen-beats-vitamin-pills.ht\ > ml > <http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2008/03/bee-pollen-beats-vitamin-pills.h\ > tml> > > I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Mobile. Try it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Alobar, The RDA is really used only for synthetic/isolated substances. Whole foods, like bee pollen, blue green algae, wheat grass - certainly they don't have megadoses of vitamins/minerals like fake vitamin pills have. But what they do have is balanced nutrition. After all, that's what your body wants anyway - it wants balanced nutrition with ALL the vitamins/minerals - it doesn't want megadoses of certain vitamins/minerals that put your body out of balance. There is no comparison between whole food supplements and the supplements that are mixed up in a cauldron by some scientist in a lab. Don't fall into the trap of " more is better " - because that's just not true - unless of course you are dealing with something that requires megadoses of a certain nutrient. Carol http://www.bluegreensolutions.com , Alobar <Alobar wrote: > > What is the vitamin profile of bee pollen? I suspect it goes not have nearly the RDA of most vitamins. > > Alobar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 So, lots of carbs and some B-6. I think I'll not be tossing out my vitamins. Alobar On 3/8/08, paula mccrum <spicebush_swallowtail05 wrote: > My Jar lists as follows, B6 with a ratio of 400-1, 35%protein, 15-25% Amino acids, 40%carbs...and states that it will not contribute fat to the body. > > Alobar <Alobar wrote: What is the vitamin profile of bee pollen? I suspect it goes not have > nearly the RDA of most vitamins. > > Alobar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 Alobar, I did research bee pollen last night and came across a website that said that it is best to have the wet freshly harvested ones. There is also a site that said they sold " flash freeze " pollens and should be kept in freezer when not yet opened and in fridge once it is opened. Another site said that the dried pollens out of fridge loses its nutrients by 75%. Yet another site said the dried pollens are no good because they have undergone a lot of processing including oven drying which greatly diminishes nutrients. My question is which is really the best bee pollen to take? Melly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 Moderator's Note: Let's agree to disagree after this, ok? ------------- We really disagree on this one. The RDA is set far too low for health. Bee pollen contains interesting chemicals which may benefit health, but the vitamin content is miniscule. You may choose to believe bee pollen can substitute for vitamins from fresh veggies and for vitamin pills, but I sure do not believe it. The website URL at the start of this thread gave an assertion with absolutely nothing to back it up. Anyone can make assertions, but without scientific studies to back up assertions, they are merely opinion. Alobar On 3/8/08, Carol <carol wrote: > Alobar, > > The RDA is really used only for synthetic/isolated substances. Whole > foods, like bee pollen, blue green algae, wheat grass - certainly they > don't have megadoses of vitamins/minerals like fake vitamin pills > have. But what they do have is balanced nutrition. After all, that's > what your body wants anyway - it wants balanced nutrition with ALL the > vitamins/minerals - it doesn't want megadoses of certain > vitamins/minerals that put your body out of balance. There is no > comparison between whole food supplements and the supplements that are > mixed up in a cauldron by some scientist in a lab. > > Don't fall into the trap of " more is better " - because that's just not > true - unless of course you are dealing with something that requires > megadoses of a certain nutrient. > > Carol > http://www.bluegreensolutions.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 12, 2008 Report Share Posted March 12, 2008 I dont think bee pollen is a good replacement for vitamins. It's probably right about being a good food for people of all ages but i really dont agree with the article of bee pollen being a replacement, i think i'll keep my vitamins close to me still! Susan http://www.bayho.com/c/121 , " hivehealth " <editor wrote: > > > Bee Pollen - A Budget Friendly Food for Health and Healing > > By Barbara L. Minton, NaturalNews.com, 3/6/2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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