| To begin with, the artificial sweeteners | | | | healthy. The big manufacturers use the |
| should be avoided at all costs. They are | | | | cheapest ingredients to save money |
| many times sweeter than sugar and have | | | | regardless of what it does to you. So |
| had very bad effects on people including | | | | they like using artificial (chemical) |
| making people fatter. They are not | | | | sweeteners and corn syrup which is |
| really foods and are more like drugs. | | | | slightly worse than sugar. |
| Sugar cane is not really that bad for | | | | Health food stores have healthy |
| health. What makes it bad is the process | | | | alternatives and they are ingredients in |
| that they put it through. | | | | some health foods. Some have the |
| This is similar to what they do with | | | | ingredients called sugar cane and invert |
| wheat and rice. They take the nutritious | | | | sugar cane. The former is regular even |
| part of the sugar cane out. It is a | | | | if it says organic sugar cane. The |
| thick black liquid called blackstrap | | | | latter is no different than corn syrup. |
| molasses. It is sweet and sold in the | | | | The healthy sweeteners are raw honey, |
| health food store. It is very nutritious | | | | pure maple syrup, agave (from a cactus), |
| with lots of iron and chromium. The part | | | | barley malt, stevia ( a healthy herb |
| that is left is called sugar and has | | | | that is sweeter than sugar) and rice |
| calories but no nutrition. | | | | syrup. The dried cane juice may not be |
| They advertise for people to buy | | | | the healthiest sweetener but it is fine |
| chromium supplements since it is needed | | | | as an ingredient in something. The |
| to metabolize sugar. The sugar robs your | | | | blackstrap molasses is healthy. |
| body of the chromium and other things. | | | | The sugar that is already in foods, like |
| If blackstrap molasses is sold in the | | | | in fruit, are the healthiest sweet |
| health food store, where is the sugar | | | | things. This information is for |
| sold? It is sold in the fat and sick | | | | ingredients when making something or |
| food store. | | | | buying something and reading the |
| Health food stores now have Succanat or | | | | ingredients. It is much healthier to eat |
| dried cane juice. This is the sugar cane | | | | sweet fruit on an empty stomach like |
| without taking out the good stuff. Many | | | | watermelon, strawberries, blueberries, |
| health foods have this as an ingredient. | | | | kiwi fruit, mango, pineapple, apples, |
| It is not brown sugar. Brown sugar is | | | | oranges, pears and grapes. Try to get |
| just sugar with a little bit of | | | | organically grown fruit when it is |
| mmolasses added to it. It is not | | | | possible. |