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Article: How to eat sweets without gaining weight or upsetting your blood sugar.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Letter
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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One afternoon about 20 years ago, I got a phone call I'll never forget. A man who had listened to my radio show for years was calling me from Japan.
"There's a sweetener that's being used all over Japan that doesn't affect diabetics," he said excitedly. "I don't know what it is, but if I send you some of it, can you get the label translated? I know a lot of people in the U.S. would want to use it and you've always done a lot of research on products. I'm diabetic, and I can use this sweetener without any changes in my blood sugar!"
I asked the Japanese parents of one of my friends to translate the labels for me. The common ingredient in all the products ...