Alcohol
Anonymous said...
Hello, have read the book from cover to cover and thought there was a lot of good sense within. I have read lots of nutrition books and am very interested in the subject. Unlike other books, yours does not say HAVE NO ALCHOHOL, NO COFFEE, ETC. I am wondering what you think is an acceptable amount to drink and still lose weight. How much coffee stresses the liver?There has been much in the press lately saying moderate coffee/red wine/dark chocolate consumption has actual health benefits. What is true? I do feel much better when I have eaten more fruit and veg, but I find the honey keeps me awake. Could be my husbands snoring though!! Does it take awhile for the body to get used to being fed in the night?
posted by Hibernation Diet Blogger @ 1:56 PM
1 Comments:
I see no problem with coffee or alcohol or indeed wine and chocolate in moderate amounts.
Some recent wotk on the liver suggests that coffee has a protective effect in liver cells when alcohol is taken.
Also fructose in honey recycles the alcohol detoxifying enzyme, so honey before and after alcohol is useful.
Also alcohol is a hypoglycaemic and drives down blood glucose (which is why after drinking alcohol memory loss is common), so again refuelling the liver prior to bed after alcohol is beneficial.
I have seen a very interesting study on bees which showed fructose (as opposed to glucose) improving learning in bees.
I do not think this has been done in humans but am confident that similar results would ocurr. Jamie Oliver brought fruit and vegetables into the schools and within a few days the teachers reported improved concetration.
i am sure this was because the fructose was providing the brain with fuel via the liver.
Your comment about honey keeping you awake is interesting and contrary to what we would expect.
Honey before bed activates insulin, which in turn activates serotonin and melatonin.
Melatonin activates sleep and therefore honey should avtivate sleep and does so for most people.
However you are not the first to report this effect so ot might be worth trying your honey a little earlier for the activation of melatonin to work fully.
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