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Sugar – The Sweet Truth

Artificial Sweeteners - how much bitter truth is there behind the sensationalistic headlines? Who should use them, and who’s better off avoiding them?

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener. It’s roughly 200 times as sweet as sugar and doesn’t have the bitter aftertaste of stevia . That’s why you need 200 times less aspartame to give a food or drink the same sweetness. So you’re consuming 200 times fewer calories. Aspartame is basically calorie-free…

These guilt-free cookies are perfect any time, any day, any season of the year! They are a must for any flexible dieter with a sweet tooth!

The study reviewed is “Stevia Beverage Consumption Prior to Lunch Reduces Appetite and Total Energy Intake Without Affecting Glycemia or Attentional Bias to Food Cues” by Stamataki et al.

Sugar is obviously evil, right? With all of the media focus on the dangers of sugar and other anti-sugar propaganda out there, one has to assume that it’s true: sugar is the devil. Social media is in general an awesome new tool for the transmission of information, but the ability to mass distribute…