I have a
sweet tooth too. I can never complete my meal without a sweetly dessert, be it a
simple fruit plate to decadently rich and calorie-laden chocolate confections. Capping
dinner with a nice sweet treat can simply uplift my mood after a long day.
Unfortunately,
too much dessert makes me stressed. I started to feel tense & worrying
seeing my body size expands horizontally, after indulging decadent dessert. It
is not some strange fact to us, that eating too much sugar is not good for
health. It leads to bigger sized jeans; it causes more trips to the dentist;
and more frighteningly, it increases the risk of diabetes & heart disease.
Do you
know that sugar contains no nutritional value, besides giving the tastes of sweetness
and supply minimal energy to our body? But yet, we still love sugars! Guess
why? Because we are born liking sweet tastes. That is why we usually call our
loved ones “Sweetheart” and “Honey”.
After a
while, I worried that my meal habit will harm my health.
I started
to try to stay away from sugar and go on healthy diet plan because I WANT TO BE
SLIM! Sadly, the common diet plans found in the internet teaches us to eat
smaller meals and NO desserts at all! I couldn’t find even one meal plan that
allows any form of dessert. When I was craving for desserts during diet
programs, I will stand outside the confectionary shop, look at the delicious-looking
cakes, image that I’m eating it and swallowing my saliva. This drove me crazy! I
couldn't bare with it! expectedly, I gave up my diet plan. That’s why I’m still
looking plump, chubby, and flabby now.
I really
cannot live without sweetness and be the “sweetheart” of my darling. Being a
bio-tech PhD student, I started to do crack my head for solutions.
Finally,
I found a way out! Why not having a sugar alternative? Image eating cakes and
chocolates that are not only taste good but also keep our body shape fit? The
desire to have such sugar alternative that can kill two birds with one stone
drives me to carry out a thorough research on it.
Through
my research, Xylitol is the choice! It may sound like chemical but it is
completely natural and has been proven not only safe but beneficial for our
well-being. Xylitol looks, feels and tastes exactly like our common table
sugars. It can be found naturally in fruits and vegetables such as lettuces and
strawberries. It is also produced in our body everyday.
How can something
that looks like sugar, tastes like sugar, but not sugar be good for us?
Firstly,
xylitol is the perfect sweetener for those who want to on diet but have a
desperately sweet tooth. Just like me. Every teaspoon of xylitol contains 40%
less calories than the common table sugar and this leads to a lower fat tissue
formation.
Besides
that, it is the perfect sweetener for diabetic patients with sweet tooth. Xylitol
does not require the hormone insulin to be metabolized and so it does not cause
a peak in blood sugar level in the diabetic patients. With xylitol, diabetic
patients need not to give up dessert, and need not to worry their blood sugar
level. They can have the taste of sweetness back to their life.
Next, Xylitol
is the perfect sweetener for our teeth. It can prevent tooth decay. This is
because Xylitol creates an alkaline environment which does not feed the
bacteria that destroy our teeth. So it has become the important ingredient in
toothpastes and mouth wash! Even the kids will ask their parents to buy them Kodomo
Lion toothpaste that contains xylitol!
I enjoy
my sweet life now with Xylitol. It
satisfies my desire for sweetness, but also keeps me away from weight-gained
& various health problems. What about you?
CRAFTED BY
SHARON
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