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Wisdom Natural Brands, the makers of SweetLeaf Stevia® Sweetener have announced a partnership with Phoenix-based (USA) Project Million to help educate schoolchildren about the importance of healthy eating. SweetLeaf provided Project Million founder Matthew Landen with SweetLeaf® Liquid Stevia Sweet Drops™, which will be included in presentations to Paradise Valley students on how to replace sug...

How your brain gets its energy to work Your brain is powered by mitochondrial furnaces, and just like any power supply these need energy to function. Just like any power system, the mitochondrial furnaces need constant feeding. This is supplied by the glucose in your bloodstream, and because the neurons in your brain can’t store glucose it’s necessary to have a constant supply flowing around...

  If you’re trying to lose weight, you’ll want to know how to keep the sweetness in your food while cutting out sugars that are the root cause of obesity, tooth decay, and coronary disease. Many dieters reach for artificial sweeteners, not realising that natural sweeteners like Stevia do the job far more effectively. Here’s something the artificial sweetener manufacturers won’t tell yo...

The Key to a fitter you Our bodies need energy to function, and that includes when you’re sitting doing ‘nothing’. You still need to breathe, and keeping your body temperature at the right level also takes energy. How fast you burn this fat depends upon your personal metabolism (when you’re resting this is called the basal metabolic rate, or BMR). The faster your metabolism, the faster you’ll...

The sweet alternative offers many dental benefits Although dental decay is largely preventable, it is still considered the most common chronic infectious disease of children ages 5-17. It is impossible to completely avoid sugar in our diets, so a more realistic approach would be to limit the amount of sugar we ingest to maintain good oral health and start incorporating Xylitol into our diet. H...

Stevia vs Splenda Low sugar or ‘sugar free’ diets are becoming more prevalent as the health industry becomes more aware of the ill-health effects of sugar, and particularly as the amount of added sugars in pre-prepared foods has more than doubled in the last thirty years. The head of Amsterdam’s health authority, Paul van der Velpen, has labelled sugar as addictive and points to the links betw...

Stevia is Suitable For Bodybuilding Diet If you’re dieting for competition, or just general bodybuilding, you’ll be intent on losing body fat whilst maintaining energy levels. When searching for food sweetening products, many serious bodybuilders are turning to natural sweeteners, and top of the list for many are Stevia products. What is Stevia? Derived from a Paraguayan shrub, Stevia Rebaudian...

Diets that are high in sugar have long been linked to various diseases, such as heart problems, dementia, macular degeneration (a particularly nasty eye problem that can lead to blindness), and, of course, tooth decay. More recently, the direct link between sugar and obesity has been asserted by Dr Robert Lustig, who says, "We need to wean ourselves off. We need to de-sweeten our lives. We need...

Five Sugar Traps to Avoid So you don’t take sugar in tea or coffee. You eat your breakfast cereal plain with just a little milk, and you don’t eat sweets or ice cream. You can’t be a sugar junkie and eat no sugar, can you? Well, actually you can. You see, food manufacturers have secretly doubled the amount of sugar in food over the last thirty years. And not only the foods that you would expect...