The holiday season always makes it painfully clear just how much sugar we as a society consume. Even things that sound like they’d otherwise be healthy, like the butternut squash casserole I made for Thanksgiving, where the recipe called for a whole cup of white sugar and a whole cup of brown sugar. Yikes!
So we tend to hone in on any new information on substitute sweeteners that are palatable and supposedly healthy. A lot…
Halloween is on its way, and of course, we PWDs are bracing ourselves for all that candy — in your face. It ain’t easy to resist, even if you’re not normally tempted, because suddenly there are the bowls-full of the stuff at home and work, at the mall and at the dentist’s office. Yipes!
I noticed some chatter about how it might be good to swear off candy altogether, or to stick to the sugar free…
An entirely different sort of update on FDA actions today: did anyone take notice that the FDA recently issued a “no objection” letter regarding stevia-based sweeteners? This is a an historic move because for many years, the FDA has fought against the US use of stevia, an herb-based sweetener (sugar substitute) “that does not adversely affect blood sugar levels — a boon for diabetics and hypoglycemics!”
Stevia had the misfortune of being relegated to the…