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iiiaiiy storifs 

 of the biMU'fii'i;il 

 i<fl\>t'ts of lioiu'v 

 in till' diet liitvo 

 appeiiiod oil this 

 ]>agc; rojiorts nl' 

 individuals uliu 

 could d i jj s t 

 lioncy u lien tlicy i-ouUl talvo no otlii'r form of 

 swcrt witliout suiVoiinjj indijjtvstion. and 

 ^torios of otlu'is who believed their gain in 

 health and strength bad been due to the 

 use of honey. Tliere was even one story of a 

 prominent Imsiness man, suffering from a 

 si'vere case of malnutrition, who, by the 

 use of an almost exclusive honey diet, built 

 'ip in weight from 90 odd pounds to 160 

 pounds and vigorous health, after his pliy- 

 sician liad tried in vain to find a diet 

 which would agree with him. 



In telling all these various stories I have 

 always made it a point not to exaggerate 

 them in the slightest, and in nearly every 

 instance have put the case for honey less 

 strong than it was told to me. Altho an 

 enthusiastic believer in honey I know- that 

 our minds have a wonderful influence over 

 our bodies, and that some of these bene- 

 ficial effects must be attributed to the fact 

 that the individuals who ate the honey had 

 faith that it would benefit them, and it 

 therefore did. 



I might add that after the publication 

 <>( any of these honey articles 1 almost iu- 

 \arialdy receive letters telluig t)f similar 

 cases known to the writers. 



WHILE we beekeepers and honey lov- 

 ers have no doubts as to the value of 

 honey as a food, yet it is a fine thing 

 for the industry to have a nutrition expert 

 of the highest authority corroborate our 

 belief. That nutrition expert is Philip B. 

 Hawk, wlio occupies the chair of the De 

 partment of Physiological Chemistry and 

 Toxi<(dogy of Jefferson Medical ('ollege. 

 rhiladcl])hia. He has cf)nducted much re 

 search work as to the digestibility of vari 

 Mils fooils as well as exhaustive feeding 

 ■ xperimcnts upon animals to determine the 

 presence or al>sence of vitamines in certain 

 fooils. ami he is well known to the general 

 public by his series of articles in the 

 Ladies' Home Journal on digestion, and 

 later on vitamines. He is also a freipient 

 contributor to the best scientific journals. 

 There are any number of nutrition ex 

 |icrts who are just as able as Philip B. 

 Hawk, but I doubt if any of them are so 

 well known to the lay public of this coun- 

 try, a fact , which makes his statements 

 especially valuable for reference. 



LA8T montii I wrote about his finding 

 the vitamiiif water-soluble B in ex- 

 tracted honey anti the vitamine fat-so 

 luble A in comb honey, anii this month I 

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pcniiieiit > ;is to 

 the digestibility 

 of hone y, and 

 then tell you 

 niore about vita- 

 mines. 



The e x p e i- i 

 meats were car- 

 ried out upon a 

 normal jnan to 

 determine the in/luence of honey uj)on gas-. 

 trie digestion. He was first given 40 grams 

 of whole wheat bread alone. The con- 

 tents of the stomach were analyzed for 

 acid and pepsin at l.">-minute "intervals 

 and an accurate and detailed record was 

 kept. The experiment was then repeated, 

 adding to the bread half its weight in 

 honey (20 grams). 



The following quotation tells the results 

 in Prof. Hawk's own words: "An exami- 

 nation of the chart will show that the bread 

 with honey was digested and left the stom- 

 ach as quickly as the bread alone. Sim- 

 ilar pepsin values were obtained, and while 

 there whs a slight depression of acidity 

 such as always follows the ingestion of 

 foods containing much sugar, digestion 

 was completed as soon as with the bread 

 alone, altho the addition of the honey had 

 practically doubled the food value of the 

 product from the energy standpoint. 



"The use of honey with bread anil in 

 similar ways would, therefore, appear to 

 be generally preferable in the case of 

 children to the eating of candies. Honey 

 serves to make the highly nutritious bread 

 far more palatable, leading to a greater 

 consumption of body-building foods in- 

 stead of depressing the appetite, as is likely 

 to be the case with candies which are eaten 

 between meals. At the same time honey 

 furnishes • the body very considerable 

 amounts of 'energy in the most available 

 form. The high place given to it in the 

 diet is therefore well deserved. ' ' 



In quoting the above from Prof. Hawk 

 we should always couple it with his state- 

 ment, published in the September Glean- 

 ings, that comb honey contains distinct 

 amounts of the fat-soluble vitamine. You 

 will remember that he said honey added to 

 the diet of white rats, which were being 

 starved of the fat-soluble vitamine, pro 

 duced the same effects as ;"> per cent of 

 liutter fat. the latter being the richest 

 known source of fat-solubic A. Remember 

 also that his experiments indicated that 

 that there are small amounts of the 

 water-soluble B vitamine in extracted 

 honey. Therefore when we give a child 

 bread spread with comb honey we are not 

 only increasing the energy value by a lariice 

 percentage, but are providing appreciable 

 amounts of the fat-soluble vitamine so es- 

 sential to growth, especially in the diet of 

 the ^oung. And, in addition, houey con- 

 tnins in minute cprintitips |irai'tically all 



