Life Without Sugar: Your Sweet Tooth Craves It, but Your Body Doesn't Need It
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me. › March 30, 2008
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Sugar, sorry to say, can make us sick. The most popular alternative, artificial sweeteners, have long posed health concerns and may lead to weight gain.
Enter stevia, a calorie-free herb said to be up to 300 times sweeter than sugar.See the full content of this document
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Life Without Sugar: Your Sweet Tooth Craves It, but Your Body Doesn't Need It
In what will surely spice up the decadeslong debate over sugar substitutes, companies as large as Coca-Cola and as obscure as Seattle-based Zevia say stevia's time has come. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration isn't about to make things easy for consumers worried about sugar intake and often confused by the options.
Stevia has been used as a sweetener for hundreds of years in Paraguay and Brazil and has been added to soft drinks, ice cream, pickles, candies and breads in Japan since the 1970s.But the FDA has not approved it as a food additive, citing safety concerns. The European Union and Canada also don't allow food companies to add stevia to products."Reports have raised conce...See the full content of this document
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