Posts Tagged ‘Natural Living’

Floral Nectar Component of Honey

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Floral Nectar Component of Honey
By Frank W. Buonanotte

Some honey is considered to be multi-floral which means that the honeybees used the nectar of several different types of flowers to produce the honey. Beekeepers that want to make a specific type of mono-floral honey will place their hives within close proximity to a certain type of plant so that bees don’t have to travel far from their hives in order to collect the nectar. After gathering the nectar, the honeybees go back to their hives where they add enzymes to it to form honey.

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Natural Living is Not Just About Food

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

By Wendy Streater

Maybe you already have a healthy diet and you exercise regularly, watch your weight and look after your health. Do you also watch what you put onto your skin? Are you aware that your skin absorbs many chemicals just as if they had been swallowed? Some are worse because being absorbed through your skin they go straight into your body without having been previously filtered through your liver.

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