Dont give up the sweet things in life

You don't need to live a life without the wonderful taste of sweetness. Nature has given us plenty of choices. Choose from these to sweeten your coffee or tea. They can even work well for baked goods.

Do food cravings and the compulsive desire for fattening, unhealthy foods prevent you from losing weight? Has your doctor told you to cut back on the calories and fat in order to improve your health - but you just can't do it? Have you been successful in almost every other area of your life, but just can't stay on a healthy diet and lose weight, no matter how hard you try?

If your relationship with sugar has soured, take heart: These three alternatives can help you sail through the holiday season with less stress and fewer pounds to shed in the new year. * Stevia is extracted from a South American herb that is 100 to 400 times sweeter than conventional white sugar.

Stevia is a natural, non-caloric, sweet-tasting plant used around the world for its pleasant taste, as well as for its increasingly researched potential for inhibiting fat absorption and lowering blood pressure. Despite its centuries-old use without reported toxicity in Latin America and Asia, including Japan, the FDA decided in 1991 that Stevia was an unsafe food additive and ordered all imports seized

Horizon Science, with backing from New Zealand investment fund BioPacificVentures, has developed a technique for retaining rich nutrients from parts of the sugar cane that are normally discarded during processing. The innovation, which taps a growing trend towards the development of low GI products, could help control the diabetes epidemic sweeping the two nations. The discovery was made by Horizon over a three-year period at the Far North Queensland sugar mill, Mossman Central Mill, with support from the Queensland State and Australian Federal Governments.