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