Karen D. Oland quoted first Bob Harrison "Putting on your label that your
honey is not D.I. filtered or pressure filtered  and saying your honey has
not been heated or only heated  to a
> > certain temp are excellent selling points to seperate your local
> > honey from a  store brand" then added  herself" As is taste testing,
where possible, promoting your honey as more like a fine varietal wine (not
a soft drink, the same everywhere) or posting
> results from one of the more responsible (respected?) studies on the
health
> benefits of honey versus sugar".

Are any  'responsible( respected) studies are known that could convince the
unmoving minds of some on this list? When I recently referred to research on
the value of honey in healing (as circumstantial evidence there is something
in floral honey that is not in sugar honey) and referred to IBRA's 2001,
'Honey and Healing' which gives lectures given by five research scientists
(the first ending with references to 97 journals, mostly medical and the
second  article ending with 155 references - and so on), Keith Benson just
came back 'I have yet to see this a standard medical therapy - in fact, it
is just a fringe thing'.
Karen was of course thinking of honey consumers, who pay out for honey,
rather than honey producers who get money in when someone a  purchases a
jar, but are harder to get to consider the evidence. What studies could
Karen use with open minded consumers?

Robin Dartington

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