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This is day two of the 5 Days Low Glycemic Eating program, where we are balancing out our blood sugar, improving our energy and taking the first step towards kicking our sweet tooth cravings.

We highly recommend the Tufts Health Letter as gripping bedtime reading. Recently it turned its attention to aspartame.

Operating in the range of 100 nanometers and even smaller, graduate student Lihi Adler-Abramovich and a team working under Prof.

Throughout the month of November, daily health tips from the Office of Student Affairs have mingled amidst the deluge of Sstuds that fill the Stern student's inbox.

Artificial sweeteners are substances engineered by humans to replace sugar in food and beverages.

Spry Sugarfree Chewing Gum is a chewing gum that is sweetened with all natural xylitol and is free of sugar and artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame and sucralose.

Individuals who consume a diet high in artificially sweetened drinks are more likely to experience a decline in kidney function, according to a paper presented at the American Society of Nephrology's annual meeting in San Diego, California.

A think tank exploring the role of homeostasis in biological processes has uncovered vital information regarding factors contributing to autistic spectrum disorders.

Looking for a new inspiration from the web, I have come across NaturalNew's A to Z list of what's wrong with America today.

Monday, November 16, 2009 Shahina Maqbool Islamabad Diabetic individuals can safely enjoy a range of nutritive and non-nutritive sweeteners when consumed as part of a balanced and healthy diet, country representative of the American Overseas Dietetic Association and consultant nutritionist at Shifa International Dr.

"Why does makgeolli need to go outside Korea?" When asked about the global potential of makgeolli, Giuseppe Barone, owner of the Sicilian restaurant Fattoria delle Torri, stayed true to his "Slow Food" roots, stressing the importance of locality.

It's not like you can't eat anything if you're diabetic. Eating right is not that difficult.

When people realized that refined sugar contributed to obesity and other health problems, the search was started for a substitute that literally allowed us to "have our cake and eat it, too". Some of these substitutes were found to be carcinogenic and taken off the market.

David Sonnenshein, Jordanne Dervaes and Abby Gilad admire a giant squash grown by Dervaes and her family on their home farm in Pasadena.

As a powder or a liquid, stevia can be a healthy, yummy sugar substitute, in home-baked goods or those on the store shelves.

Q. Do you think I should dress our dog for Halloween? My 8-year-old daughter is going to be a ballerina, and I think it would be so cute if our toy poodle, Tinker , was also a ballerina.

Last week, 60 Minutes reported on David and Susan Axelrod's search for a cure for epilepsy prompted by their two decade plus experience of the ailment, which their adult daughter has suffered since infancy.

When you reach for a sweetener to flavor your iced tea or coffee, your options can be confusing.

Halloween candy -- friend or foe? Photo courtesy of PhotoXpress.com The following tip comes from Los Angeles mother, Deborah Merlin, author of Victory over AD/HD; A holistic approach for helping children with Attention Hyperactivity Disorder.

Artificial sweeteners: How bad are saccharin, aspartame? Too much sugar will make you fat, but too much artificial sweetener will ... do what exactly? Kill you? Make you thinner? Or have absolutely no effect at all? This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Food and Drug Administration's decision to ban cyclamate, the first artificial sweetener ...