Wednesday, May 29th 2019
You may think that staying slim and eating healthfully means NO sweets, but guess what? There are natural and delicious sweeteners that won’t wreck your diet, and even have therapeutic ‘side benefits.’
No arena of health and wellness is more debatable than what we should be eating. Looking back through time, the foods that constitute a healthy diet have changed so dramatically, you can literally mark the passage of time by the coming and going of dietary fads.
- Weight-loss clubs and diet pill popping in the 1970s
- Cabbage soup and liquid diets in the ‘80s
- The Zone and blood-type diets (along with lawsuits related to diet pills!) in the ‘90s
- In the aughts, Atkins and gluten-free
- In the 2010’s, it’s Paleo, raw, and local
Despite this obsessive focus on what to eat, Americans are fatter and in many ways, unhealthier than ever before[1]. In 2016, two-thirds of the adult population were considered overweight or obese, according to a U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services study[2]. This health epidemic spans ethnic and cultural boundaries, and is affecting more adults and children every year.
One factor that is contributing to America’s growing problem with weight is our obsession with sugar. You probably don’t need to see the results of a clinical study to believe that the more sugary calories you consume, the greater your risks of obesity[3]. What you may not know, is that what passes for sugar these days is actually a hyper-sweetened extract of one of the cheapest, most heavily-sprayed, GMO-pervasive crops on the planet.
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I recently came across a NZ product that uses a tuber called Yacon to sweeten – WOW it is YUM.
This Yacon is grown in the North of the North Island and the sweetner is described as Fructooligosaccharides
This is my FAVOURITE of their products (but they are all good!) https://www.rawhitimanukahoni.com/products/cacao-yacon-latte
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Thanks Rose … looks good. Going to try it. Been using stevia actually but local would be better. x
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The wife and I use “stevia naturals” instead of sugar. …but then we “do” keto as well.
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