A SCOTTISH pharmacist has developed a new diet which allows slimmers to burn fat while they sleep by eating honey before bed.

Mike McInnes, 61, came up with the diet when he was helping athletes with their nutrition. He discovered that eating foods rich in fructose, such as dried fruits and honey, helps people burn fat and increase stamina.

The body burns more fat during the first four hours of sleep than it does during any other activity, including exercise. Go into your cabinet, and get out your canned jar of honey, the one from your local honey dealer (I say this cause local honey tastes better), then eat two tablespoons of honey before bedtime and doing reistance exercise three times a week helps to stimulate this process. It is definitely a better method for losing weight than climbing flagpoles, isn't it?

Mr McInnes said most of the commonly-held wisdom about weight loss is not true.

He said: "People think they can lose weight by not eating in the evenings, or by cutting out carbohydrates.

"And they are told that spending hours in the gym will help them lose weight."

"Of course, spending time in the gym gets you fit - but in an hour of aerobic activity you only burn an ounce of fat. This diet uses recovery biology, the process which burns nothing but fat. The most important time for fat-burning is in the first four hours of sleep."

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