You may have heard of Stevia. You may have wondered why should you care with sugar, and all the other sweeteners out there. Well, for starters: Sugar makes us fat, so some health professionals say. And if you are a diabetic, sugar can be deadly. Sugar and other carbohydrates raise the blood sugar levels, and ...
Cursed by dieters everywhere, and loved by children around the world, sugar is one those substances we ‘love to hate’ and ‘hate to love’! It can make bland foods tasty and can make the dentist rich. Americans love sugar in all forms, from pure white granulated to liquid to fluffy cotton candy. As a nation, ...
Saccharin (Sweet’N Low), aspartame (NutraSweet and Equal) and sucralose (Splenda) are a few of the better-known artificial sweeteners, also known as sugar substitutes. Anyone who’s used them knows the sweetness they offer, without the calories of sugar. Some in the diet and healthcare worlds consider them to be helpful “free foods,” good for weight and ...
Several years ago, when my daughter wasn’t quite a year and a half, I was in the process of learning all I could about why she had been having severe seizures since the age of ten months old. By the time she was fifteen months, still no one had any definitive answers, but she had ...
Diet soda is something some that many of us have grown accustomed to drinking, whether it is because we drank it when we were kids or we because we have just acquired a taste for it. In recent times, soda companies have been manufacturing diet soda with “flavors,” in order to make the whole idea ...
