Healthy Food Sweetening For Diabetics

Diabetics often are at the point where they choose sugar over health or health over enjoyment. Fortunately today there are ways of sweetening food the natural healthy way.

Guarani Indians have used Stevia Rebaudiana as a natural sweetener and medicine for millenia. It is the steviosides in Stevia leaves that cause the sweetening effect. This sweetening is upto three hundred times the sweetness of white sugar.

Stevioside, the Stevia extract is used across Asia – China, Korea and Japan as a table top sweetener. Not only is it fat free, but it also contains no calories or carbohydrates! In the US Stevia is available as a deitary supplement.

Apart from the sweetening quality, Stevia is tonic, cardiotonic, diuritic, hypotensive, and hypoglycemic. There are many ailments treatable with Stevia – infections, sweet cravings, depression, fatigue, hypertension, cavities, obesity and diabetes.

In addition Stevia aids wieght loss. Many countries around the world use Stevia. Some classify it as a food supplement, others call it a sweetener and still others call it a dental health product. In the near future this drug is likely to become highly available and with it an alternative to sweet, tasty food for diabetics.

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