I really think you don't understand who this book is aimed at. Honey is sugar. The people who need that book don't handle sugar well. Using myself as an example-- when I was in my early 20's and thin as a rail, I had my first indication that my body doesn't cope well with sugar. I had horrible low blood sugar reactions to eating sugar. My body releases too much insulin when I eat sugar, so my blood sugar goes up, then comes down hard and fast leaving me weak, shaky, tired, and confused. The people who read that book and need to adhere to that diet have similar problems with processing sugar. Ironically we're the same people who crave sugar the most.

The author of Neanderthin (a paleo-type diet) has his dieters use honey as a sweetner, because it's found in nature without processing - which is his criteria for deciding whether to eat something or not. He does say that people who need to lose weight should eliminate or seriously limit the honey.

So if you don't have the metabolic issues of the typical Atkins dieter, I say go for it. Frankly if I were you, I'd go for the sugar.

I love sugar. If it weren't for the fact that I'd be diabetic in no time, I'd indugle in it all the time.