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All About Pollen

About Pollen: Health Food and Healing Agent

A fascinating survey of the richest source yet revealed of vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acids, hormones, enzymes and fats. Author demonstrates how pollen, essential for all plant life and garnered by bees, is a perfect food and medicine.

Throughout the ages honey has always been accepted as one of the finest foods available to man. Centuries ago, when primitive races lived close to nature, they were compelled to hunt for food: honey and fruit juices were the only means of sweetening. As progress was made and ancient civilizations appeared, honey was highly regarded and praised in the work of authors and in records. It was mentioned in the Bible, Koran, Talmud, and was widely valued by the Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians. In fact in every land inhabited by the bee the same beliefs existed regarding the miraculous powers of honey as both a food and medicine. The ancient Greeks named it, "The Nectar of the Gods": writers and learned men of many civilizations believed this nectar to be a wonderful food and storehouse of medicinal goodness. So for centuries, the power of this natural food was simply accepted. It is only in the last few decades that scientists have been able to prove conclusively that honey is not only a perfect food but also a giant germ killer in which bacteria simply cannot exist. Read the Book Online

The Healing Power of Pollen

Author: Maurice Hanssen
Copyright 1979 Thorsons Publishers Limited, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Pollen is a food of perfectly balanced nutritional value. The book tells of recent discoveries in the therapeutic use of pollen, and reviews the various pollen products available. It also includes information about propolis, royal jelly and honey.

Even the dry dictionary definition of pollen conveys some of the mystery and wonder of the substance. But pollen as a food?

Yes, in the same way that wheat germ is now well known to be a valuable and nutritional source of the B vitamins, and vitamin E and is so rich in protein that half a cupful contains as much protein as there is in a quarter pound of beef, so pollen researchers are finding more and more precious food substances and micro-nutrients in the pollen grain.

Extensive medical trials in all parts of the world convince more and more hard-headed and orthodox doctors that the health, virility and vitality of the human body depends not just on the basic food ingredients – proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, and vitamins – but also on minute quantities of biologically necessary elements many of which are found in pollen. Read the Book Online

Searching the Source of Life and Vitality

"This book is about the most interesting, stubborn, yet generous person I have had the privilege to work with in my professional career" - Ake Asplund, one of the founding fathers of Cernelle AB in Engelholm (Sweden), the Pollen Capital of the world.

It is not given to everybody to believe in an idea, implement it against almost unsurmountable odds 30 years ahead of its true times, to see it eventually recognized as a lasting success. For such success does not come free: it requires an exceptional character, an inborn stubbornness to fight the possible and impossible, and a grand dose of idealism and generosity in one’s attitude to life.

A second person whom both Mr. Asplund and I owe much, has shaped in an essential way both of our lives. It is the late Dr. Aldo Pedrini, pharmacist, my father-in-law. As President of Unione Farmaceutica he early recognized the potential of Cernelle’s Pollen Extracts and gave the Company his unwavering financial support, managerial experience and enthusiasm in often difficult times.

The lessons I have learned from a continuous interaction with these two masters of life are durable and of the kind one zealously treasures forever.

May the reader of this unique autobiography profit as much from it as I have from having personally interacted with these two men: it will be a precious and unforgettable experience! Read the Book Online

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