Save the Bees

I was making some mead with chaga, ginger and cinnamon today and was re-visiting the book Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers and stumbled in this really good piece of information about bee products, like honey. It was also on my mind how much better is to consume well grown foods and how there is so much misinformation about the longevity of our ancestors, who most definitely used to have better life spams than our crappy poisonous society does. Anyway, here it goes:
"Pliny the Elder researched the ages of people living exclusively on honey and hive product diets late in the first century A.D. He found that in the region of the Apennine mountains, there were an anomalous number of people more than 100 years old, and 7 were 135 years of age or older. In Parma, he located 5 who were more than 125, and nearby another 11 more than 100.
Piast, the King of Poland in A.D. 825, was a beekeeper who subsisted primarily on honey and other hive products. He lived to be 120 years of age. One Hebrew tribe, the Essenes, were noted beekeepers and were renowned for their age-many passing 100 years old.
Plutarch (A.D. 46-A.D. 120) observed that the Britons, who subsisted on great amounts of honey, “only begin to grow old at one hundred and twenty years of age”. The original Bardic name of the British Isle was “the Honey of Isle of Beli”- beekeeping was a major industry and honey one of its principle commodities. When Pliny the Elder visited the British Isles, he commented that “These Islanders consume great quantities of honey brew.” A pre-World War II investigation of tombstones in Britain noted that there were many long-lived Britishers who ate a great deal of honey from the comb. A few: Sir Owen of Scotland died at 124 years of age, his last son was born when he was 98, and he walked 74 miles in six days in the last year of his life. Peter Garden, a Scot, dies at the age of 131, keeping the appearance of a young man until the very end. William Ellis-130; Mr. Eccleston, Irish-143; Colonel Thomas Winsloe- 146. Francis Consist-159- John Mount, Scot-136/ Thomas Parr-152. And throughout the world beekeepers and mead drinkers have been reputed to enjoy extremely long life and good health.”