Saturday, February 16, 2019

Is It Beneficial To Replace Added Sugar By Sweetener As Substitute ?

It's advisable to prevent ourselves from avoid any diet intake that throw us closer to the disease 

Person who have indication to have diabetes should be careful upon any intake mostly associated to carbohydrates and sugars 

It is encouraged for any diabetic person , the one whom have developing diabetes to replace carbohydrates and added sugar with vegetables, fruits, legumes, and whole grains.

Still person can't stay away from sweetness, advised to replace added sugar by sugar substitutes to increase weight loss and reducing blood sugar level, regardless there always a drawback !

It's quite promising to watch the campaign of sweetener sugar substitute that contains artificial ingredients , non-nutritive sweeteners 


It would better for diabetic patient to choose natural sweetener instead of those sugar substitute that contains artificial nutrients but still you need to give lots portion in concern 

Even natural sweeteners never to be 100 percent healthier, there always drawback to let you more active in pros and cons and give consent to the portion control


The natural sweeteners also contain sugar & carbohydrates

Replace your table sugar by these natural sweeteners can be challenging as they are still contain sugar and carbohydrates as well high glycemic index

Call them corn syrup, honey, maple syrup to even brown sugar indicated to have these bad side to let you gain more weight and spiking blood sugar

Rest of worries as long you taking them not on excess , it won't cause matter or else you may consult the doctor for the replacing of the table sugar to find which will perfect to condition 

Still we can have best alternatives here few of natural sweeteners that can be taken into solution 
Here are several natural sweeteners for diabetes patient 

Agave Nectar

Has been used by the Aztecs for centuries as natural sweeteners ,which similar taste as honey and so sweet no matter comes from Agave plant

The Agave plant quite advisable since it has low glycemic index (GI) in compared to honey and table sugar, as per info it has GI 20-30 than regular sugar of 50-60



Before taking this into replacement quite advisable consult doctor to check whether it would fit to your blood sugar as per individu is different 

Low glycemic index on foods in tendency to raise the blood sugar at slower pace which any diabetic patient can count on 

Agave nectar also contains low calories of 60 and 16 grams sugar, in compared to regular sugar of 45 calories 

Use this as sweeteners in small amount since taste sweeter than sugar plus the replacement of one tablespoon to teaspoon of agave will save 30 calories and 8 grams sugar 

Drawback is there, agave 90 percent fructose as it metabolized will move to liver instead bloodstream, will raise blood sugar

Even not raising blood still will increase triglycerides , fat in blood that linked to diabetes risk, heart disease and metabolic syndrome , use the agave sparingly 

Stevia

Popular to be natural sweet source that grows in South America similar shape to mint family

Kind of stevia that available at store determined as steviol glycosides-rebaudioside A also Stevie that extracted from stevia rebaudiana bertoni leaves

Since it is about 200 - 300 sweeter than regular sugar will take less to make your food and beverage taste sweet, cut calories and carbohydrates automatically

It is considered one stevia packet contains 0 calories and 1 gram of calories

The advantage of stevia, after some studies that being examined to find out the possibilities of stevia used to the impact of placebos on blood glucose, insulin levels , gain weight or loss weight plus hypertension

Result has shown minimal report to those mentioned above , it means it would be very less disadvantage of stevia brings in order to replace regular sugar intake for diabetes

Monk Fruit Extract


To be known as luo han guo or swingle fruit extract kind of combination between different cucurbitane glycosided to be noticed as mogrosides

One can consider this as sweeteners as 150-300 more sweet than regular table sugar , for 0,8 gram pocket in raw contain 1 gram carbohydrates also zero calories

Can be considered for high calories and high carbohydrates also, this monk fruit considered to be expensive and hard to find

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caloriecontrol.org
thediabetescouncil.com

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