Sugar In Diets

Sugar In Diets

Sugar In Diets

Contrary to what you may have been told, some kinds of sugars can be harmless - like the naturally occurring sugars in fruits and vegetables - and others can actually be beneficial, helping to support your pancreas, boost immunity, build and tone muscle, and even lose weight.

Certain fruits, such as the wolfberry, contain polysaccharides or complex sugars which have been clinically shown to break down tumours, improve eyesight, combat free radicals in the body, and strengthen the liver and the pancreas. Wolfberry polysaccharides also improve weight loss, boost metabolism, and provide a natural sweetness which can replace refined sugar in your diet... and even replace the sugar cravings which make it so hard to stay away from refined, high glycemic sweets.

There are many alternative sugars and sweeteners recommended to replace refined white and brown sugar in baking. However, most of them are hardly better than cane sugar in terms of how they hit your body. Rice syrup and barley malt, often recommend in a macrobiotic diet, are far less refined and contain none of the synthetic chemicals which make refined sugar so toxic. They do, however, hit your bloodsteam as a high glycemic food.