sweeteners

When trying to lose weight you know that you need to cut calories, but did you know that some low fat options are high in sugar and artificial flavourings that can make dieting even harder.  Because eating high sugar foods can wreak havoc on the blood sugar and result in sugar highs and crashes, it can make dieting a major challenge.  Even though some foods appear like good diet choic

In recent years agave nectar has become an increasingly popular sugar substitute.  This all natural sweetener is a product of the blue agave plant.  The plant grows in the southern parts of Mexico in volcanic soils.  It is a very sweet plant and is used therefore as a replacement for sugar.

According to health and diet experts, the average North American consumes somewhere between two to three pounds of sugar a week.  This includes high fructose corn syrup, regular sugar, dextrose and other sugar derivatives.  Consumption of sugar and sugary byproducts has therefore grown from twenty-six pounds a year to a whopping 135 pounds a year.  Obviously this is a grave chang

At present Americans now drink more soda than every before.  Over the last few decades soda pop has become a staple of the standard Western diet.  On average Americans drink approximately one and half soda cans a day.  This works out to almost six hundred cans a year!  According to one researcher these figures make soda con

Eating habits have changed a great deal in the last fifty or so years.  Today, people in wealthy nations consume a ton more than they used to, and of that consumption a great deal of it is composed of fats, processed foods, sugar and salt. 

Too much sugar has been linked to obesity, diabetes, and other health problems. If you use sugar substitutes to avoid having too much sugar in your diet, it is in your best interest to be very careful of which ones you use.