Sugar Substitutes – New and Old

Safe Sugar Substitutes

Found this really good update on sugar substitutes in Parade Magazine. Here is a summary of the important information:

The old sugar substitutes are saccharin, aspartame, and sucralose. The Center for Science in the Public Interest – a health advocacy group- disagrees about saccharin and aspartame, citing studies that indicate those sweeteners increase the risk of cancers, and advises people to choose sucralose. The author of the article Joy Bauer (author of “Joy’s LIFE Diet:Four Steps to Thin Forever”) says she doesn’t think it matters which product you consume as long as you don’t consume more than two artificially sweetened items a day. Or she says you could stop using artificial sweeteners and use one of the natural sugar substitutes.