British apiarists knew it all along: honey is the bee's knees

As a study trumpets the food's medicinal properties, there's a buzz about beekeeping in the UKWhen honey made headlines this week as a better treatment for coughs and colds than antibiotics, beekeepers sat smugly by. "I've been saying this for ages," says Carly Hooper, who has 12 hives near her home in Fleet, Hampshire, and a honey-based business.The study, published in the British Medical Journal, found that honey was a more effective treatment for coughs, blocked noses and sore throats than many remedies more conventionally prescribed. Continue reading...