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I thought I had this series about wrapped up until I took that final trip down the alternative sweetener aisle at the health food store.  “Sugar Made Healthy” a package proclaimed.  I picked it up and looked over an alternative sweetener I had somehow missed.  The product is called Whey Low, and a look at…

You are hurrying along — your mind on the next thing on your to-do list.  Your toe meets the raised edge of the sidewalk, and you trip.  What happens next?  Automatically your body goes into recovery mode.  Every muscle responds and you do all you can to stay upright.  Most of the time you make…

Here is the recipe of the week.  Although I did at least half a dozen things wrong  (including spilling the sauce all over the countertop and having to start again) it turned out pretty tasty. I found it on Pinterest and made a few changes to make it lower glycemic.  All the ingredients are in…

The desert lies bare and brown for years — and then when it rains, it suddenly blooms with color.  How do these plants stay alive and dormant during those dry years?  By means of the sugar we are looking at today — Trehalose.   Naturally occurring Trehalose protects the seeds so that when water does…

Several of my blog followers have asked me, “What about Truvia?” Truvia started out as stevia.  The owners of Truvia, Cargill  Labs and Coca-Cola, extract the sweet part of the leaf, Rebiana A, and combine it with erythritol, a sugar alcohol.  And “natural flavors.”  It has zero calories and no effect on blood sugar levels. …

For every Web site that proclaims something is deadly, there will be another that says, “Nah, that’s just a hoax.”   We’ve seen that to be true about sugar, as well as about the alternative sweeteners we’ve been examining in this series. But if something is true, eventually conventional medicine will come around and we…

Salad — bleuh!  That’s how I always felt about it, mainly because I always ate the same kind of salad with the same kind of dressing. And the more I ate it, the less trouble I went to with it, so that it eventually wound down to carrots and lettuce.  The trick to adding more…

A spoonful of sugar makes the panic attacks go away?  Well, maybe it will help. One of the newest sugars on the alternative sweetener aisle has been around for hundreds of years in southeast Asia.  Now it is quickly becoming the favorite here, too.  Coconut palm sugar has the advantage of being natural, minimally processed,…

“The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs…one step at a time.” ~Joe Girard Wouldn’t we love to take the elevator to our goals?  That’s what all the diet pills and magic potions promise.  Just push the button and presto change-o, you have the slim, svelte body you always…

A stroll down the sugar and sugar alternative aisle in the health food store will….confuse you.  What are all these products and how are they different from sugar?  We’ve looked at some — honey, stevia, agave Nectar, and xylitol.  Today we’ll look at another twist to the sugar story, sucanat. Sucanat stands for SUgar CAne…
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