Scot Mc Pherson wrote:

>how would you like living on potatoes and
>beans an your sole food? You won't be very healthy for very long.
>  
>

Given that you didn't evolve to eat sch a diet, you would do poorly.  
Honeybees on the other hand evolved to use pollen as a source of 
protein, fats vitamins and minerals.  Nectar and honey as a CHO source.

>Plants need only hydration and light to live,
>
This is simply incorrect.

> but they don't do well
>except for some of the very simple plants like algae which also DO show
>much improvement with vitamins.
>
Methinks you are slightly misusing the definition of vitamin.  Having 
said that plants certainly do require more than hydration and light to 
live.  There are many substances, both macro and micronutrients that 
they require.  Algae too.

>Bees have their own trace requirements, like we need iodine, and plants
>need iron...are these well known? No, unless you happen to be a doctor
>or botonist OR if you are concerned about your own health, the ecology,
>environment and study these things.
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>
Tell me - what can be found in honey that cannot be found in pollen, 
except for CHO that is necessary for bee health?

>No living things in nature are provided with purity of any sort, we
>evolved all of us over millions and millions of years with factors and
>traces and those factors and traces have become part of our
>requirements, same with the bees, same with the trees, same with us.
>  
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I don't think anyone disputes that animals including insecta require 
many different substances.  Temember that they tolerate a great many 
others and these are not requirements.  The point is - bees use nectar 
for CHOs, i.e.e simply calories, and pollen for the other stuff.  In 
fact they go to great lengths to keep the two largely separated.

Keith

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