{"id":393693,"date":"2010-03-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/05\/a-sweetener-with-health-benefits-best-sugar-substitute\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T17:00:00","slug":"a-sweetener-with-health-benefits-best-sugar-substitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393693","title":{"rendered":"A Sweetener With Health Benefits: Best Sugar Substitute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Health<\/a>, Healthy Eating<\/a>, Eat This<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"One of the more frequent topics I get asked about is sweeteners. Sweet, it seems, is a very comforting flavour. It seems a cruel joke that sugar, the very essence of the sweet flavour, is so detrimental to our health; implicated in everything from obesity to tooth decay and many disorders in between. Artificial sweeteners<\/a> are really no better as, although controversial, much of the science on them shows they are extremely toxic. <\/p>\n

I’ve advocated for using raw honey<\/a> and maple syrup<\/a> in moderation in the past, but the fact is, they’re still sugar<\/a> and are just as susceptible to abuse. Recent reports on agave<\/a> point to the likelihood that it’s not a healthy sweetener at all, but is really on par with high fructose corn syrup<\/a>. The jury is still out on this one, but I’ll be avoiding agave until a reliable answer comes.<\/p>\n

So what is one to do? Are we doomed to never have a sweet indulgence that isn’t accompanied with a side of blood sugar spikes<\/a>, not to mention a heaping portion of guilt? Stevia<\/a> is a great sweetener, but it does have a different sweet flavour; almost artificial in character (even though it is completely natural). In some applications it’s fine, but some people find it hard to get used to.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating, Eat This One of the more frequent topics I get asked about is sweeteners. Sweet, it seems, is a very comforting flavour. It seems a cruel joke that sugar, the very essence of the sweet flavour, is so detrimental to our health; implicated in everything from obesity to tooth decay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}