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[A66]A Low Sugar Diet

by Sander Bel, San

Avoidance of all sugar (including the natural sugars found in fruits) has formed the basis of some of the latest diets, helping people lose weight for a time, but often resulting in ling term crankiness and sometimes even constipation. The humans began ingesting large amounts of sugar and starch in the form of grains (and potatoes) into their diets. Eliminating flour and sugar effectively reduces the amount of empty calories from your diet.

Many of these foods (based on refined carbohydrates) are also high in fat (pizza, donuts, etc). In general, your best bet fruits are these, but do check carb counts. Counting calories or weighing or measuring is not a part of the Sugar Busters plan. These are sort of arranged by sugar content, taking volume and weight, into account. The fruits lowest in sugar are some of the highest in nutritional value, including antioxidants and other phytonutrients. The two main problems with sugar is that it can adds up quickly to a lot of calories and to low nutritional intake.

All foods have some natural sugars, but sugar itself the white or brown stuff we put in our cookies, is a purely optional taste sensation. The fruits like tangerine, pineapple and dried fruit have high sugar. Sugar Busters is not a low-carbohydrate or high-fat diet. That 65% of Americans are overweight, and 27% clinically obese, in a nation addicted to sesame seed buns for that hamburger, with a side of French fries and a Coke, is no coincidence. The diet is about 40 percent carbohydrate and 30 percent or less fat, of which no more than 10 percent should be saturated fat.

Beneficial lower sugar diet

Cereal with milk & walnuts, toast with jelly and fruit
Cut the sugar cravings. Head them off at the pass by eating real foods containing complex carbohydrates such as whole grains, proteins from meat, eggs and cheese and fiber found in vegetables.
In your diet plan, and in the member's area you are given many ways to cut back on sugar and fats.
Fruits which are lowest in sugar rhubarb, blackberries, plums and apples.
Any meal or snack high in carbohydrates generates a rapid rise in blood glucose. To adjust for this rise, the pancreas secretes the hormone insulin into the bloodstream, which lowers the glucose.
Adding fat or acid to your carbs helps to lower the glycemic index of the dish. Both fat and acidic foods slow the conversion of the food to sugar in your body. So, add a bit of healthy fat - or ingredients like vinegar and lemon juice when you cook.
Sugar busters diet basically requires you to keep a check on the intake of foods high in refined sugars like potatoes, corn, white rice, white bread, beets and many more. The ultimate aim of this weight loss diet plan is to reduce your dependence upon refined foods that stand in the way of achieving good health.
The No Flour, No Sugar lifestyle encourages selection of foods without significant sugar and refined flour content, based on interpretation of food labels. Exercise is also mentioned (half an hour a day). No counting of calories is suggested, however the book does list foods to major on and foods to avoid.
Raw sugar and brown sugar is better than cane sugar. Basically, brown sugar, white sugar and raw sugar have about the same effect upon the body and similar nutrient values. They are all sweeteners with very low nutrient values. Honey is stickier, so it actually is worse on teeth and gums, but it may have a greater sweetening effect (so you might use less of it to get the same sweetness in a food).

Do you love sugar but have to cut back? Does your low sugar diet preclude your favorite desserts and make your food taste bland? If so, not to worry, there are ways to bake even your favorite desserts using less sugar, with or without sugar substitutes. It just requires some experimentation and a working knowledge of what sugar actually does in a recipe. Once you understand what the role of sugar is in your baking and cooking, you can make appropriate adjustments and substitutes. In most types of cooking, sugar is only there for the flavor - the sweetening power. You can easily reduce the amount of sugar that you use in fruit compote, for instance, and you'll probably find that the fruit flavors are far more intense. For more details go to www.delicious-candy-recipes.com Natural sugars like fructose in fruit and lactose in milk a lot of nutritional value along with the carbs and calories. Using natural sweeteners like apple juice is one way to add sweetness while cutting back on granulated sugar. Sugar substitutes are another way to add sweetness to drinks and food without adding calories or carbohydrates. However, baking with sugar is a different story. Granulated sugar does more than sweeten baked goods. It can affect volume, moisture texture and color of the finished cakes, cookies, pies and candy. Substituting other ingredients for sugar in baked goods can cause your baked goods to fail - or at least come out far differently than you expect. If you are using sugar substitutes in baking, or trying to cut back on sugar in your baked goods, here are some tips to help you out.

* Sugar substitutes work best in cold recipes, or added at the end of cooking time. Heat can destroy the sweetness of most sugar substitutes and leave an unpleasant aftertaste.

* Try using sugar substitutes half and half with sugar in your baked substitutes.

* Use spices and other flavor enhancers to bring out the flavor of dishes when you reduce sugar. Lemon and orange zest brings out fruit flavors. Vanilla and nut flavorings make baked goods smell buttery and sweet, which enhances the sweetness of your recipes. Cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg and allspice all enhance sweetness in recipes.

* When you cut sugar in chocolate recipes, substitute strong, cold coffee for some of the liquid to enhance the chocolate flavor without adding additional sweetness.

* Top reduced sugar baked goods with fruit or fruit spread to put the flavors right up front so that they are tasted immediately.

* Sprinkle reduced sugar cakes with cinnamon and sugar substitute for the same effect.

Texture and Volume

* Sugar helps cookie dough to spread during baking. Without sugar, the cookies may not spread properly. For more details go to www.chef-123.com When baking cookies using sugar substitutes, flatten each cookie slightly before baking just as you would peanut butter cookies.

* Intensify sweetness in a dish with fruit juice. Reduce the juice to 1/3 of its original volume by boiling it over high heat for extra sweetness.

* Muffins and cupcakes cooked with lower sugar may not rise as high or achieve the round-domed top that we expect. Bake them in mini-muffin tins rather than regular size to allow them to rise higher.

* Add ? teaspoon of baking soda to a recipe to make baked goods with reduced sugar rise in a shorter baking period.

* To increase volume, use whipped egg whites in recipes that call for eggs. Start with eggs warmed to room temperature.

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