Are Some Sweeteners Better Than Others?

2015-11-19

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REFERENCES

The Inventor of Saccharin. Scientific American, 1886 https://books.google.com/books?id=f4I9AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA36#v=onepage&q&f=false

Schramm, D. D., Karim, M., Schrader, H. R., Holt, R. R., Cardetti, M., & Keen, C. L. (2003). Honey with high levels of antioxidants can provide protection to healthy human subjects. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, 51(6), 1732-1735. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12617614

Rizkalla, S. W. (2010). Health implications of fructose consumption: A review of recent data. Nutr Metab (Lond), 7(82), 911-22. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2991323/

Yang, Q. (2010). Gain weight by “going diet?” Artificial sweeteners and the neurobiology of sugar cravings: Neuroscience 2010. The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 83(2), 101. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/

And a good fact Sheet on sugar and sweeteners:

http://extension.colostate.edu/docs/pubs/foodnut/09301.pdf

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