Honey

[Nat13]

My friend told me about, not a diet, but a bit like a diet. She told me that if i ate a spoonful of honey before i went to bed it would keep my liver awake *not that is sleeps, but does make the fat lie in your liver* that it uld use fat up while i was sleeping. This sounds wayyyyyy too good to be true, is there any side affects? has anybody tried it? does it actually work?? x x x

[LazyGun]

Not sure, tbh. You can find all sorts of folklore related to the beneficial properties of honey..... if you believed all of them, then honey would be the universal panacea!

From a dietary PoV, honey would be calorific, and in general terms, taking calories just before sleeping would not seem a particularly effective way of losing weight ;)

[Toureman]

I should think it is too good to be true.

The main side affect is that it would make your teeth drop out, just ask your dentist, honey attacks your teeth more than anything else!

[Impret-Sir]

Have a look on the lable of the honey pot! Honey is basically 100% carbohydrate as sugar. If anything it is fattening, (at any time of day), and as Toureman says, if you eat it after you have cleaned your teeth then it will also provide a lovely, night long food source for the plaque bacteria in your mouth that cause tooth decay!

[redmug100]

It will keep your pancreas awake and could give you stomach ache due to the acidity of the suger. The only stuff that 'burns fat' - sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) - would also burn any organ it comes in contact with!