The mental and physical vigor of its high percentage of aged population has been envied by other states. Ministers in the Vermont Methodist Church Conference, with an average life span of eighty years, furnish one instance that Vermonters seldom have to retire even from careers where the stress calls for unusual mental and physical vigor. Eight ways Vermonters use honey to retard the aging processes are:
1. If they become a bit constipated, they increase the daily amount of honey normally used. Looseness of bowels, in turn, calls for a decrease in their daily ration of honey. These Vermonters feel honey is a necessity for people as they grow older to help them maintain normal bowel action.
2. They take honey to maintain the efficiency of their bodies’ muscles. They find honey gives them energy for their day’s work, and to climb stairs. It steadies their bodies, so they face less danger of falling. Vermonters credit honey with giving them stronger muscles and better muscle response.
3. Containing 22 amino acids, B-advanced vitamins and fortified with royal jelly, Forever Bee Honey is a wonderful method to help help the body’s natural defenses. Vermonters find honey very soothing to their stomachs. They have discovered that this natural sweet alleviates stomach gas, reduces heartburn.

4. Because of its sedative effect, Vermonters take honey to assure themselves sound sleep. Far superior to sleeping pills is a mixture of one cupful of honey to three teaspoonfuls of lemon juice, kept in a small jar beside their beds. Their bedtime doses are two teaspoonfuls of this mixture.
5. Vermonters have found that honey can prevent twitching of the muscles, especially of the eyelids or the corners of the mouth. It also can prevent the appearance of cramps in the muscles of the legs.
6. For its sedative action, honey is used to stop or lessen many headaches. It will lessen chiefly the pain of neuritis, or the pain associated with arthritis.
7. Honey combats and helps Vermonters control their body fatigue. They rely on that old hayfield drink of two teaspoonfuls of honey and two teaspoonfuls of lemon juice to a glass of water. This is an especially good drink to combat the effects of the heat.

8. Vermonters believe honey bears the same relation to the body as fertilizer bears to the soil. Forever Royal Jelly accommodates all eight essential amino acids plus ten secondary amino acids and notable quantities of the minerals calcium, copper, iron, phosphorus, potassium, silicon and sulphur.
With their canny affinity for the earth, they realize that, as they grow older, they resemble a piece of land that has been used up. They look to the perfect food gathered by the bees as their bank of health funds on which they can draw as they face old age.
Dr. D. C. Jarvis says that honey is helpful in treating poliomyelitis spasms. One of the effects of polio upon the body is to raise the blood-phosphorus level. This phosphorus generally accompanies muscle twitching, cramping, and paralysis. Besides the actual muscle paralysis which may be present, the conditions now recognized in the acute stages of polio are muscle spasm and in-co-ordination of muscle function.