Sugar Free

Sugar Free Chocolate Pudding

June 20, 2012

Nothing soothes my sweet tooth quite like a cool cup of chocolate pudding on a hot afternoon. Except if it’s loaded with sugar. The sugar free pudding that you can get in the stores usually is sweetened with Aspartame, which always tastes a little funny to me, sort of metallic and synthetic. I prefer something [...]

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Mother of 3 Jailed for Baking Apple Pie

February 18, 2012

That could become a common headline if the proposal suggested in a Feb. 2 Nature paper by University of California, San Francisco nutritionists ever gets taken seriously. A post by Wired Science’s Brandon Kein entitled “Sugar May Be Bad, But is the Alternative Worse?” weighs the pros and cons of refined white sugar vs. artificial sweeteners. But [...]

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10 Natural Sugar Alternatives to Avoid

February 18, 2012

When I was first diagnosed with hypoglycemia, I remember going to the local health food store and getting all excited looking at the array of exotic and delicious looking sugar alternatives. I started thinking of all the yummy things I could make and was sure that my problems with sugar were all over. What my [...]

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Sugar-free Desserts that Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

February 15, 2012

Want to cut back on sugar but afraid you lack the discipline to cut back on sweet tastes?  For the typical westerner who’s been hooked on the stuff since he had teeth to chew it, a no sugar diet sounds about as appealing as a Turkish prison. But, as the old cliché goes, “desperate times [...]

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