USA: Honey helps hangovers

Eating honey may help the seasonal hangover, according to the National Headache Foundation.

Honey on a cracker or piece of toast, before or after drinking, may prevent a hangover.

“Honey has fructose that competes for the metabolism of alcohol,” Dr. Merle Diamond, associate director of the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago told Reuters Health. “This competition prevents the rapid change in alcohol levels that causes the ‘bang’ headache in the morning,” she said.