American Diebetes Association

December 5, 2009

Can you Have Diabetes without Knowing It?

Diabetes can be a slow silent killer and closer than you realize. With one in three Americans insulin resistant and in the pre-diabetes range soon these people could be diabetic. Double the amount of people in the US getting cancer and swine flu combined have diabetes, yet many are not even aware of the risk […]

October 11, 2009

To Sweeten or Not to Sweeten?

What about non-nutritive sweeteners? There are now a variety of non-nutritive or fake sweeteners on the market, from Sweet and LowTM (saccharin), to NutraSweetTM (aspartame) to SplendaTM (sucralose). Although they are treated as substitutes, they all range from half as sweet as sugar to 8,000 times sweeter than sugar, with the average being 200-300 times […]