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May 13 2007 - Newsletter - Coconut Oil - Newsflash Heneybees
Newsletter: May 13th 2007
http://www.healthnorm.com
In this newsletter:
- Happy Mother’s day to all you moms out there!
- From our last newsletter
- Chlorine Alternatives for our Pool
- New products on our web-site
- Coconut oil, why we keep running out…
- NEWSFLASH - Honeybees
- In our next newsletter
Happy Mother’s day to all you moms out there!
Today is your day, don’t be shy, if you want something, ask for it… and expect it!!!
From our last newsletter
- Inversion tables, the benefits of hanging.
- The chosen one; our new juicer.
- Due to the huge demand, we will find more info on Phytoplankton.
You can access our last newsletter here:
http://www.healthnorm.com/index-en/news/index.html
And our archives here:
http://www.healthnorm.com/index-en/news/Archives-Newsletter/index.html
Chlorine Alternatives for our Pool
We have been looking at many solutions, but you will have to wait for our next news letter so that we have all the info available for a complete report. We will speak about three main categories, Ozone Filters, Salt systems and Ionization systems. Lots of things to consider, worth the wait.
New products on our web-site
We have some free recipes posted in our coconut section:
http://www.healthnorm.com/index-en/Products/Organic-Coconut-Products/Free-Recipes/index.html
Healing the spirit with Selenite Lamps:
http://www.healthnorm.com/index-en/Products/Healing-The-Spirit/index.html
Our skin care section is being populated slowly with new products; you can check our progress and view some new features:
http://www.healthnorm.com/index-en/Products/Skin-Care/index.html
We have new Salt Lamps, some very nice new designs, check it out:
http://www.healthnorm.com/index-en/Products/Himalayan-Salt-Crystals/Himalayan-Salt-Crystal-Lamps/index.html
Coconut oil, why we keep running out…
People really love using the coconut oil. The taste, the lightness, eases of use, and the health benefits are astounding. We know our prices are good, maybe except for the ordering of one 500ml. The natural food stores sell the coconut oil for $29.95 here in Quebec. But if you order 2 we sell them for $23.49, and by the case of 12, they are at $14.08, that’s half the price. The 5 litre pail makes it even more economical.
More and more people understand that oils that are overheated, although some oils do have health benefits, can be very harmful. So for those of you that would like to try them, we will waive the handling fee on orders of coconut oil, that’s a saving of $5. Just enter the word “coconut” at check out to get the $5 discount, valid until May 31st. Remember, there is no tax on these food products.
http://www.healthnorm.com/index-en/Products/Organic-Coconut-Products/Organic-Virgin-Coconut-Oil/index.html
NEWSFLASH – Honeybees
We have included the following forwarded e-mail from one of our contacts, while everyone has heard or read about the disappearance of honeybees, I have not read or heard anything positive about the source of the real problem. No newspaper or TV news has attacked the source of the problem; all we hear about is speculation about cell phones and other apparent could possibly issues. Well, read the following and be knocked off your chair as I did. This really baffles my brain why this is not attacked directly. I always wondered what was different in generic honey versus the organic honey; one says pure honey, and the other pure organic honey. I ask for your help in forwarding this e-mail so that it finds people who can understand it and make a difference, please. Forwarded e-mail:
ORGANIC BEEKEEPERS report NO LOSSES
while conventional operations report massive colony losses
http://bushfarms.com/bees.htm
6th May, 2007
Sharon Labchuk is a longtime environmental activist and part-time organic beekeeper from Prince Edward Island. She has twice run for a seat in Ottawa's House of Commons, making strong showings around 5% for Canada's fledgling Green Party. She is also leader of the provincial wing of her party. In a widely circulated email, she wrote:
"I'm on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies."
Her email recommends a visit to the Bush Bees Web site http://bushfarms.com/bees.htm, where Michael Bush felt compelled to put a message to the beekeeping world right on the top page: "Most of us beekeepers are fighting with the Varroa mites. I'm happy to say my biggest problems are things like trying to get nucs through the winter and coming up with hives that won't hurt my back from lifting or better ways to feed the bees.
This change from fighting the mites is mostly because I've gone to natural sized cells. In case you weren't aware, and I wasn't for a long time, the foundation in common usage results in much larger bees than what you would find in a natural hive. I've measured sections of natural worker brood comb that are 4.6mm in diameter. What most people use for worker brood is foundation that is 5.4mm in diameter. If you translate that into three dimensions instead of one, it produces a bee that is about half as large again as is natural. By letting the bees build natural sized cells, I have virtually eliminated my Varroa and Tracheal mite problems. One cause of this is shorter capping times by one day, and shorter post-capping times by one day. This means less Varroa get into the cells, and less Varroa reproduce in the cells.
Who should be surprised that the major media reports forget to tell us that the dying bees are actually hyper-bred varieties that we coax into a larger than normal body size? It sounds just like the beef industry. And, have we here a solution to the vanishing bee problem? Is it one that the CCD Working Group, or indeed, the scientific world at large, will support? Will media coverage affect government action in dealing with this issue?"
These are important questions to ask. It is not an uncommonly held opinion that, although this new pattern of bee colony collapse seems to have struck from out of the blue (which suggests a triggering agent), it is likely that some biological limit in the bees has been crossed. There is no shortage of evidence that we have been fast approaching this limit for some time.
We've been pushing them too hard, Dr. Peter Kevan, an associate professor of environmental biology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, told the CBC. And we're starving them out by feeding them artificially and moving them great distances. Given the stress commercial bees are under, Kevan suggests CCD might be caused by parasitic mites, or long cold winters, or long wet springs, or pesticides, or genetically modified crops. Maybe it's all of the above...
In our next newsletter
- Our pool products findings
- CellFood
- Oxygen
- The Secret – Have you heard about it?
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