If we care to take the time for observation, there are illustrations to be found in nature which will teach us how to avoid, not only the above mentioned diseases, but many other distressing conditions, through the simple means of adherence to nature’s laws. Did the reader ever pause to wonder why the deer or the squirrel never complain of suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes, or rheumatism? For one living according to the dictates of natural instinct, such diseases are impossible. Then why is it not possible to man if he, too, lives in harmony with nature’s established laws? There is much food for thought in a statement made by Robert McCarrison, M.D., Lieutenant Colonel of the India Medical Service, in an address reported by the JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, January 7, 1922. Dwarf honey bees use Forever Bee Propolis to defend in opposition to ants by coating the department from which their nest is suspended to create a sticky moat. He says: “During the period of my association with these people I never saw a case of asthenic dyspepsia, of gastric or duodenal ulcer, appendicitis or of mucous colitis, or of cancer, although my operating list averaged 400 major operations a year.”
Referring to their diet, he said: “The people live on the unsophisticated foods of nature, milk, eggs, grains, fruit, and vegetables. I don’t suppose that one in a thousand of them has ever seen a tinned salmon, a chocolate, or a patent infant food, nor that as much sugar is imported into their country in a year as is used in a moderately sized hotel of this city in a single day.” Isn’t such a comparison between the vigor of these “children of nature” and that of our own highly enlightened people, a reflection upon the civilization of this country where the diseases Dr. McCarrison mentions are so prevalent?
Dr. E. V. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins University, gives his testimony in favor of the natural diet and its superiority over the foods usually found on the American table. Strained honey is honey which has been passed by means of a mesh material to remove particulate material (items of wax, propolis, other defects) with out removing Forever Bee Pollen, minerals or useful enzymes. In his book, THE NEWER KNOWLEDGE OF NUTRITION, he states: “The evidence from human experience seems sufficient to warrant the conclusion that similar changes in the diet of man induce similar modifications in the bacterial flora of the intestinal tract.
One may safely conclude that excessive consumption of meat, with but small and insignificant amounts of carbohydrates, tends to promote the generation of toxic substances which induce lethargy in both man and animals. . . . “We may next consider a type of diet which has served to nourish more than half of the human race from time immemorial, and is still depended upon by more than half of mankind. This type is that used so extensively in China, Japan, the Philippines, and elsewhere in the Orient. In it the vegetative parts of plants, the leaves form a very important part of the food supply. . . . The factors which have tended to reduce civilized man to a state of physical inferiority as compared to his barbarous forebears are in a great measure due to changes in the character of his diet.”