Three senior athletes, ranging from 52 to 70, recently gave their insights into how they stay healthy and hungry for success. For these veteran runners, their milestone birthdays bring with them more wins from the finish line. For instance, Clare Elms is 52, and she holds the record in her age group for the fastest…
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According to recent reports, Scotland has a desperate need for more beekeepers due to the production of honey becoming a rare commodity in various areas as of late, experts have said. This year’s crop of honey this past summer has been a “virtual failure” because of the weather, and a jump in prices is expected.…
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Manuka Honey Fig Dip with Blue Cheese and Garlic Pitas There are some days when the only way you can see them ending involves a filling snack rather than a large, time-consuming meal. While large meals make for good, tasteful experiences, sometimes all you are in the mood for (or have the energy for) is a…
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Ironman legend Dave Scott is a six time Kona champion, and he follows a ketogenic diet, which is high in healthy fats and low on carbohydrates. It is easily explained like this: 60 percent of his food is good fat high in omegas like seeds and nuts, olives, coconut oil, and fish. 20-25 percent is…
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Strange red honey began to show up in the hives of New York City beekeepers in the summer of 2010. At first, many beekeepers thought the bees had foraged a new plant like sumac, but after they kept finding the red honey in their hives, they had a few samples tested. It turns out the bees’…
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Bayer, a global enterprise in the life science fields of healthcare and agriculture, launched a scientific study trying to prove that seed pesticide treatment is not harmful to bees while also trying to assess the effect of oilseed rape grown from clothianidin-treated seeds on bees. Clothianidin is an insecticide similar to thiamethoxam and imidacloprid, and…
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Contrary to popular belief, proteins in larval foods of honeybees do not determine the larvae’s growth into queen bees. This includes the protein royalactin, which was previously thought to be the “queen determinate” since 2011. This is the finding of a study from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenburg, which was published in the journal Nature.…
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It’s a generally held opinion around the world that honeybees and other bee species are in a bad situation. Their numbers have been showing drastic decreases in most countries due to pesticides, malnutrition, and also colony collapse disorder (CCD) for reasons not well understood. One notable exception in all of this, however, is Israel, where…
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