Honey Best For Sleep And Weight Loss?

[Ideonaut]

This author http://www.benefits-of-honey.com/honey-diet.html
claims that honey before bed is ideal for quality sleep and for weight loss. I think I'll try it. It seems to be in line with Peat's ideas.

 

[milk_lover]

Some honey types could be allergenic and it actually could worsen your sleep quality. So be aware of any allergy signs upon taking the honey.

 

[Syncopated]

Honey is best unheated if your going to eat much of it. Raw honey is a misnomer as the large majority of all honey available, even if labelled raw may still be heated during extraction, or filtering/bottling and even in the hot room before extraction.

The key term for buying honey is contacting the bee keeper and asking if the honey has ever been heated anywhere during the processing of it. Ask them if they use a heat exchanged and what temperature it operates at. If they say yes shop elsewhere. The honey should not be heated at all and if only warmed in the hot room for centrifugal extraction, it must not exceed 93 deg. F. That is the magic temperature for honey. Best to go directly to the honey farm with a few large HDPE pails and get your honey directly from the extractor for the year.

I once read a study about 15 years ago where they where treating diabetes in Europe decades ago using truly unheated honey. The unheated honey decreased the amount of glucose in the urine when eaten in large amounts. Aajonus Vonderplanitz, a once world renown expert on honey, said that unheated honey contains an insulin-like factor that begins to degrade if the honey gets heated past 93 deg. F.