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Nonnutritive Sweeteners: Help or Hindrance? (Part 6)
This week, I thought I’d wrap up my series on nonnutritive sweeteners by answering several of the questions that have come in from readers…
The Health Impact of Sugary Drinks
Researchers have found evidence that the increased consumption of sugary drinks such as sodas and sports drinks in recent years has contributed to thousands of new cases of diabetes and heart disease in the United States…
Nonnutritive Sweeteners: Help or Hindrance? (Part 5)
Last week I wrote about Truvia and PureVia, two new stevia-based sweeteners. Because they really are so new to the market, we don’t know a lot about them. They likely are safe. Then again, it’s hard to say what researchers will find years down the road. Whether you use nonnutritive sweeteners or not and which ones you use is really a matter of individual preference…
Nonnutritive Sweeteners: Help or Hindrance? (Part 4)
A lot of questions came in again (last week on sweeteners! This week, I wanted to focus on two of the stevia (rebiana) sweeteners that are now available on the market. And just a reminder that even though we call these sweeteners “stevia,” they’re really not quite the same as the stevia (perhaps purchased in a health food store) that some of you have mentioned using. Only the stevia extract rebiana has been given the green light for use as a general purpose sweetener by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
Loving Louisiana
The first leg of my two-stop, cross-country trip went great. I led an all-day seminar for nurses called “New Solutions to Diabetes” in Lafayette, Louisiana. What an interesting place!
Nonnutritive Sweeteners: Help or Hindrance? (Part 3)
Thanks to everyone who posted questions last week! The use of sweeteners in people both with and without diabetes is always a great topic for discussion, and I’m glad to see that folks have done their homework and are asking questions about all of the products out there. We continue with the sweetener saga. The sweetener of the week this week is stevia (actually, rebiana, a stevia-based sweetener)…
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