HEALTH INFO

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Get off sweeteners until you clean your blood. That means:

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No fructose, tapioca syrup, honey, sorbitol, aspartame, agave

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OK SWEETENERS:

• XLITOL (not from corn)

• STEVIA (Trader Joes sells little plant to pinch off)

 

MY COMMENT: Now, almost all processed foods have sugar in them because they found out that people buy them more. So, tomato soup, lasagne, etc all have sugars added. And, they lie on packaging. For example, over the counter parmesan cheese was found to have no cheese in it. It was made from sawdust. The FDA did nothing bur write a letter afte 1 year of complaints.

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Agave: Health advocates believed agave was a  solution for PWDs (people with diabetes) because it’s made of up to 90% fructose rather than sucrose, so it’s much lower on the glycemic index (GI) and thus doesn’t pack the same punch to blood glucose level. But that, as we learned, may be misleading. While it’s generally true that the lower a food’s GI score, the slower it raises blood sugar, it’s also well-documented that basing a food’s healthfulness on the glycemic index is misguided — given that ice cream ranks lower than watermelon.

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A teaspoon comes with 20 calories and 5 grams of carbs — slow-releasing carbs, yes, but they’re still there. In comparison, one teaspoon of regular sugar is 16 calories and 4 carbs. 

 

The agave distilled nectar is highly processed using chemicals and GMO enzymes. Advocates were horrified to learn that the process often uses an enzyme derived from mold (Aspergillus niger). 

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Raw agave is simply processed at a lower temperature.

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Sorbitol: Sorbitol takes a relatively long time to digest, and undigested sorbitol in your small intestine acts as a substrate or platform for the fermentation of bacteria. As bacteria ferments, hydrogen gas is produced, causing abdominal cramps, bloating and severe flatulence. As such, sorbitol may aggravate irritable bowel syndrome and similar gastrointestinal problems

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