To start with, the artificial sweeteners should be avoided
like the plague. They are many times sweeter than sugar and
have had very bad effects on people including making people
fatter. They are not foods and are more like drugs. Now the
sugar cane is not really bad for health. It is what they do
to it.
This is similar to what they do with wheat and rice. They
take the nutritious part of the sugar cane out. It is a
thick black liquid called blackstrap molasses. It is sweet
and sold in the health food store. It is very nutritious
with lots of iron and chromium. The part that is left is
called sugar and has calories but no nutrition.
They advertise for people to buy chromium supplements since
it is needed to metabolize sugar. The sugar robs your body
of the chromium and other things. If blackstrap molasses is
sold in the health food store, where is the sugar sold? It
is sold in the fat and sick food store.
Health food stores now have Succanat or dried cane juice.
This is the sugar cane without taking out the good stuff.
It is the ingredient in some health foods. It is not brown
sugar. Brown sugar is regular sugar with a little molasses
added. It is not healthy. The big manufacturers use the
cheapest ingredients to save money regardless of what it
does to you. So they like using artificial (chemical)
sweeteners and corn syrup which is slightly worse than
sugar.
There are healthy alternatives that health food stores have
and they are ingredients in some health foods. Some have
the ingredients called sugar cane and invert sugar cane.
The former is regular even if it says organic sugar cane.
The latter is just like corn syrup.
The healthy sweeteners are raw honey, pure maple syrup,
agave (from a cactus), barley malt, stevia ( a healthy herb
that is sweeter than sugar) and rice syrup. The dried cane
juice may not be the healthiest sweetener but it is fine as
an ingredient in something. The blackstrap molasses is
healthy.
The sugar that is already in foods, like in fruit, are the
healthiest sweet things. This information is for
ingredients when making something or buying something and
reading the ingredients. It is much healthier to eat sweet
fruit on an empty stomach like watermelon, strawberries,
blueberries, kiwi fruit, mango, pineapple, apples, oranges,
pears and grapes. Try to get organically grown fruit when
it is possible.
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The author, Chuck Bluestein, is a bodybuilder, nutritionist
and herbalist. His website has information on natural
remedies for high blood pressure, fasting, losing weight,
natural cure for depression, natural cures, master cleanse,
back and neck pain and how to be happier.
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