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Sweeteners: The Effects on your Body are not so Sweet

Did you know 86% of American use “diet” products and consumers spend $21 billion dollars per year on diet drinks? Clearly they believe these diet foods and beverages will help them in ways real foods do not provide. Is that hope true or is it just a magical wish? At the World Obesity Conference last […]

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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 […]

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