Salty & Sweet: Simple Alternatives To Sugar

Top nutritionist Robyn Flipse explains the sweet lowdown on sugar and sugar substitutes.

By: Life Goes Strong Team

August 11, 2011

It's hard to avoid sugar. In fact, it seems as if high-fructose corn syrup and other sugar products are in just about everything we eat. What to do? Nutritionist Robyn Flipse has answers.

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Meg Shanghai | May 9, 2013

Do not trust this info, please. It is commercial and very untruthful.

Meg Shanghai | May 9, 2013

Do not trust this info, please. It is commercial and very untruthful.

Richard | Oct 8, 2012

With diabetes at epidemic levels in the western world, there was no mention in this video of the high sugar therefore calories levels in alcohol (wine, beer, spirits etc) that many people consume. In Australasia many now use a natural alternative called STEVIA a plant based natural sweenener to the many suspect artificial sweeteners. It has none of the side-effects of some of the well known artificial sweeteners.

Anonymous | Oct 6, 2012

This is terrible information. Artificial sweetener is a chemical slurry which has all kinds of implications for obesity. Many artificial sweeteners cause insulin release and simply confuse the system, leading to insulin resistance. High fructose corn syrup and cane sugar may be chemically identical, but it takes a whole lot more corn syrup to achieve the same sweet taste. This is why soda sweetened with HFCS have around 11 teaspoons of sugar and those sweetened with cane sugar have around 4 -6. Avoid HFCS, avoid artificial sweetener and you'll save yourself all sorts of dietary effects.