Sweeteners

The Top 3 Most Addicting Foods, Why They’re Destroying Your Health, and 2 Steps to Transition Off Narcotic Foods

by Donna Gates
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Wheat, dairy, and sugar are the most addictive foods on the planet. All three activate pathways in the brain that signal pleasure and reward. These are the same pathways that drugs like heroin or cocaine follow.

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How Sweet It Isn’t – Why Sucralose Is Just as Bad or Worse Than Other Artificial Sweeteners

by Brad
sucralose is bad

We’ve talked a lot about sweeteners a lot lately, and I hate to beat a dead horse, but the thing won’t die! A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a reader asking for help. Her husband had learned that most alternative sweeteners were bad, but that sucralose (Splenda) was ok and doesn’t do the harm that the others do. Let’s set him straight.

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Artificial Sweeteners’ Side Effects and Natural Sugar Substitutes

by Isabel De Los Rios
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Artificial sweeteners are nothing but BAD news so I really wanted to see what type of studies have been done most recently on the topic and where Dr. Oz and his colleagues currently stand on the whole artificial sweetener debate.

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Crowding sugar out

by Kelli
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Your best bet to reducing the amount of sugar your children eat is to focus on adding nutritious foods, rather than on eliminating all sweets. The idea is that we don’t have to do it all perfectly.

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