Sugar Substitutes Review (Best Sweeteners For Health)

Hello and welcome to shopping with Dr. Ekberg we're just going to talk a

little bit about sweeteners we have heard a lot about high fructose corn

syrup versus sugar versus agave and brown rice syrup and all that stuff

well there's not that much difference between them except high fructose corn

syrup is the worst of the worst because it's often contaminated but agave that's

often proclaimed to be a healthier sweetener well high fructose corn syrup

is 55% fructose and 45% glucose whereas table sugar is 50/50 and the fructose is

actually turns out to be the worst one because it creates fatty liver well

agave is just like honey it's a little more natural product and they won't tell

you on here but it is actually almost pure fructose it has somewhere around 70

to 80 percent fructose so it doesn't impact your blood sugar that much but in

quantity it starts creating fatty liver so with any sweetener if you eat the

tiny little bit you're okay it doesn't really matter which one you picked but

by the time you start eating a lot then fructose turns out to be worse it's not

only does it trigger insulin responses it also gives you fatty liver

while this is proclaimed as a healthier sweetener it's not really true in small

quantities yes I'll give it a few points over sugar because it has a few minerals

in it but again nothing you want to consume in

large quantities same thing as honey

when you want to get away from sugar a lot of people turn to this which is not

a good idea because this is a frankenfood if you ever saw one it is

carbon and chlorine merged together in a very unnatural bond so this is in the

same class as a pesticide called a chloro carbon it is a neurotoxin and

there is nothing natural about it so when it comes to low-calorie or non

calorie sweeteners some people put all of them under one roof and they think

that stevia because it's next to the neurotoxins is also an artificial

sweetener which is not true so here's an acceptable form it's not the absolute

best but it is organic stevia and it has some raw sugar so if you eat a serving

or two of this you're getting less than one gram of sugar if you want to be

super strict you want to try to find pure organic powdered stevia and avoid

the sugar altogether so stevia is a plant extract and it has no impact on

blood sugar and most people test really really well for it there are exceptions

you if you want to be really sure you want to get checked out by someone who

can test you on it but stevia is the way to go and if you have to have sugar then

make sure that you eat it in extremely small quantities I would recommend less

than 15 to 20 grams total per day and that includes all sources thank you so

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