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59-60 and Waiting to Die?
What is the Saturn Return? I'm the nation's Saturn Return expert and I'm here to help you understand this all important period in your life. This is one of my missions in life. There is little in our culture that prepares us for the magnitude of the...
Cancer - The Missing Point
If one were to judge by television advertising and news reports, it would seem that the “war on cancer” is all but won. What are the weapons being heralded? Drugs, research, tests and exams. They miss the point.
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IPL or Intense Pulsed Light Therapy - The Gentle Alternative for Wrinkles
Copyright 2005 Wendy Owen
Laser treatments have come a long way since they first appeared
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Weight Loss - Alternative Sweeteners
Do you have a sweet tooth? Do you crave sweet desserts? Have you
ever felt like a sugar addict? Most desserts are packed full of
sugar, and yet there is plenty of evidence that sugary desserts
are not healthy foods.
You may decide to cut your sugar intake for a number of reasons:
- To eat a more natural diet - sugar is a highly processed food,
and our hunter gatherer ancestors did not evolve to eat such a
concentrated source of 'empty calories'.
- To assist in the control of your blood sugar - research shows
that low sugar diets do help to control your blood sugar levels.
- To lose weight. A high sugar intake is a diet buster,
regardless of which weight loss diet you try.
So how can you satisfy your sweet tooth without sugar? There are
a number of strategies:
- Create desserts from fresh, unprocessed fruit, with no
sweeteners added. Sugar free fruit salad is a classic example of
this approach. There are a number of classic desserts that can
be served in a version based on this theme, such as Ambrosia,
Balsamic Berries and Minted Melon.
- Cut out desserts, or only serve dessert as a very occasional
treat. Believe it or not, even the strongest and most demanding
sweet tooth will eventually quiet down, if your sugar addiction
is not being fed.
- Use alternative sweeteners. Which alternative sweetener you
use will be influenced by your reasons for giving up sugar, and
by your own taste buds.
Natural sweeteners include honey, and Stevia.
- Honey is still a very concentrated food, and should be used
very sparingly, if at all, if your goal is to control blood
sugar or to lose weight. However, honey, in very small
quantities, does still have its place in a natural foods diet.
- Stevia is an extract from the leaf of the Stevia plant. It is
intensely sweet, and only tiny amounts are needed to sweeten a
dessert, so it's more suitable than honey for blood sugar
control and weight loss. But there are a couple of catches with
Stevia: It is approved as a supplement, rather than as a food
additive, so you can only
use it for foods that you sweeten
yourself. And, depending on the brand, it can have a slightly
'liquorice' taste. It's well worth experimenting with different
brands, to find the brand most acceptable to your taste.
Generally speaking, the white extracts have less taste. Oh yes,
and watch out for the fillers! There's not much point in using a
low-calorie / low-carb sweetener like Stevia if it's a brand
that's packed with a high-calorie / high-carb fillers, so
remember to read the labels.
Artificial sweeteners include saccharine, aspartame and Splenda.
It's worth bearing in mind that some people are sensitive to one
or more artificial sweeteners, and report headaches and other
side effects. Whether or not you use them is ultimately your
decision. Many people have decided that when the only drinks
available are artificially sweetened diet drinks or sugary
drinks, that for them, the artificial sweetener is the lesser of
the two evils.
If you're cooking with artificial sweeteners, read the label and
avoid those with high calorie / high-carb fillers. But don't
bother cooking with aspartame - its sweetness disappears with
the heat of the cooking. This is why aspartame is mainly used
for drinks. And it's worth noting that if you'd like to reduce
your artificial sweetener usage, but don't like the taste of
Stevia, a combination of Splenda and Stevia is pleasantly sweet
and virtually tasteless - somehow the Splenda 'smoothes out' the
Stevia flavor.
Ultimately, it's a personal decision which sweeteners or
combination of sweeteners that you use, but with the range of
alternative sweeteners available you can make delicious
sugar-free choices.
About the author:
Jay is the web owner of
http://www.weight-loss.biz/weight-loss-information/ Weight
Loss Information, a website that provides information and
resources on nutrition, weight loss programs, and fitness. You
can also visit his website at:
http://www.diet-pill.info/diet-product/ for Diet Product
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