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stevemark122000 profile image71

The Dangers of Stevia

The high sugar content in so many foods and beverages today has prompted many people to use artificial sweeteners as a way to reduce calories and promote weight loss. Unfortunately, artificial sweeteners are...

12 comments    health how to food
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Ten or More Ways to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth Without Sugar

TEN OR MORE WAYS TO SATISFY YOUR SWEET TOOTH WITHOUT SUGAR Sugar used to be a commodity that only the royalty could afford. Queen Elizabeth I had black teeth because of her sugar habit. Most of her subjects...

2 comments    health sugar free natural sugar
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Yacon Syrup: Antioxidant Rich, Diabetic Friendly, Superfood Sweetener

Yacon syrup is an immune boosting sweetener for those with diabetes, obesity, cancer and candida issues.

7 comments    candida raw food syrup
Water is a vital beverage for good health and an alternative to harmful carbonated sodas. 76

How Soft Drinks are Bad for You

Water is a vital beverage for good health and an alternative to harmful carbonated sodas. It is a known fact that soda is not good for you mostly because of the sodium content. Just by not drinking any soda...

4 comments    health diet immune system
alexadry profile image73

Health risks of dogs ingesting sugar free gum

"My dogs just ate five sticks of sugarless gum" said the owner on the other line. As a receptionist for an animal hospital, I was pretty used to these sort of phone calls. However, this was really the first...

0 comments    dogs symptoms blood sugar
am9905d profile image68

Xylitol

Xylitol is a natural sweetener that can effectively replace sugar or other sweeteners. Nowdays, it is mainly extracted from corn, although originally it used to be made from birch tree pulp. As I have said...

1 comment    nutrition sugar sweetener
sanunewa profile image69

Satisfy your sweet tooth without sugar with substitutes, Diabetes

How to satisfy your sweet tooth without consuming sugar? It is possible, with substitutes! Alternatives to the rescue. We love its softness, but it appreciates less calories it brings and the concerns that...

0 comments    how to tips how
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Chocolate Raisin Banana Cookies: No Added Sugar

Cookies are a great snack but because I have type II diabetes I have to avoid sugar. I also do not want to use a sugar substitute or honey when I bake so I have spend considerable time trying to find...

12 comments    food recipes baking
someonewhoknows profile image62

Healthy lifestyle,sugars in food and Exercise

Thursday 07-23-2009 I was reading a story today on U.S.A.TODAY about the government's responsibility to get Americans moving will be discussed at the three-day Weight of the Nation conference next week....

6 comments    health food children
mollyniendorf profile image56

Hi. I'm Molly and I'm a Splendaholic.

Is there a 12-Step program for something like this? I knew I'd hit rock bottom when I awoke one morning and found a packet of Splenda stuck in my underwear. Not the underwear drawer. In the underwear I was...

14 comments    diet stevia splenda
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