[geeks] achoo

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, September 26, 2002 at 13:26:31 (-0500), Brian Dunbar wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [geeks] achoo
>
> > > Have you tried locally produced honey?  My wife swears by it.  A bit pricier
> > > than the mass market stuff but (she says) well worth it.
> > 
> > In my opinion locally produced honey is better.  But what does that have
> > to do with this topic?
> >  
> > -- 
> > Joshua D. Boyd

Brian it helps a _LOT_ if you quote the text you include from other
messages by prefixing each line of it with some common character and a
space character , and even better if you include attribution as above
too.  I didn't even see your reply to me -- I thought it was an
accidental reply with no added content until Josh replied and I realized
I hadn't typed any of the words about honey that he was replying to.
 
> Ah.  Honey is good for allergies.  The stuff (antibodies?  It's been a long
> morning) that keeps it from rotting in the hive kills allergens.  Something
> like that.  That's why the local stuff is best in that regard - it, and you,
> share the same allergen thingees.

I have heard similar things, but being generally allergy free up until
recent years I've more or less ignored such advice.

Hmmm... I still tend to eat the free honey my uncle produces and gives
to my family.  :-)  I never had any allergies when I lived at home (and
though his honey comes from the opposite side of Sask from where I grew
up, much of the flora is similar).  We also ate some honey produced by a
neighbour, and in some years even some that was collected on our own
farm by a bee-keeping friend.

Then again I lived in primarily clean clear relatively un-polluted
prairie air back then too.  And I was younger as well.  My sister grew
up with bad allergies to horses -- something she really liked....

I'll try to look for some organic locally produced honey next time I'm
in some place that might sell it (though our "big-box" Loblaws grocery
store has lots of "organic" products, few are locally produced).

(I'm guessing that less-organically produced and maybe even homogonized
honey might have less anti-allergen abilities....)

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								Greg A. Woods

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