I tried this last night, and it worked. I had a deep sleep and woke up refreshed, which doesn’t happen often.
I’ve been eating a lot of honey, but mainly in the morning and afternoon with coffee or yogurt. Occasionally I would sleep well and not know why. Maybe those were the days I had honey with yogurt before going to bed, which I occasionally would do.
Hi, I’m a type 2 diabetic and I’d like to talk about blood sugar. There is a known phenomenon of elevated fasting blood sugar that seems to be related to the long period of no food that people undergo when they sleep. Basically, as I understand it, when blood sugar drops sufficiently at night, the liver releases glucose into the bloodstream. In non-diabetics, the insulin response keeps it from getting too high, but in diabetics, the result is elevated morning blood sugar. There’s an alternate explanation in the linked article, but whatever the reason, I’ve found that taking a small amount of carbohydrates before bedtime seems to prevent it.
And to wash it all down, we would probably drink hypocras, a mulled red wine seasoned with ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves and sugar
What I haven’t done is test whether the form of the carbohydrate matters, nor have I figured out the optimum dosage though I suspect that it’s between ten and twenty grams. According to the USDA nutrition database, honey has about six grams of sugar/tsp, so 2-4 tsps is about the right dose. I get the 10-20 gram figure from the fact that the recommended dose for treating a hypoglycemic emergency is 15 grams of glucose and, well, trying to avoid spurious precision.
Were we to attend a 16th century court banquet in France or England, the food would seem strange indeed to anyone accustomed to traditional Western cooking. Dishes might include blancmange-a thick puree of rice and chicken moistened with milk from ground almonds, then sprinkled with sugar and fried pork fat.Continue Reading..
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