BODY: SWEETS FOR THE SWEET

Oh how we love those sweets. No wonder we are getting fatter nationally. There are many sweeteners we use to satisfy that craving. I will mention a few here.

White table SUGAR, (sucrose) has been a very popular sweetener over the years. It has been reported that each of us in America eats about 150 pounds of sugar per year. Sugar is in many desserts and processed products. Even cigarettes are sugar cured.

A widely used substitute for sugar is High Fructose Corn Syrup.  It is sweeter and cheaper than sugar. So economical it has become wide spread in the industry and appears in everything including sodas and fast foods. The average person consumes about 63 pounds of it per year.  DON'T DO IT.  IT WILL MAKE YOU FATTER THAN SUGAR.  The TV ads have been taken off  that say it is the same as sugar.  It is not - it is digested differently. 

Stay away from manufactured artificial sweeteners. They don't make you slim. They make you fat.  Splenda is processed with Chlorine - Do you want that?  Saccharine is a coal tar product. Do you want that?  Equal/Aspertame can cause weird symptoms. Want that?