Try our homemade liquid stevia solution to make these sweet little cheesecakes and you might become hooked on stevia forever. The cakes are moist, creamy, and flavorful. But most of all, without adding any sugar at all to the cheese filling, they taste sweet and tangy. More
Mini cheesecakes with stevia
11 Sep 2018 4 Comments
in Desserts, food, health, recipes Tags: avoiding sugar, cottage cheese, cream cheese, diabetes, Stevia
Your key to using Stevia
25 Apr 2017 13 Comments
in Breakfast foods, Desserts, Drinks, food, health, recipes, Snacks Tags: avoiding sugar, blood sugar, diabetes, pancreas, Stevia, sweeteners
Why stevia?
If you love sweets, this natural, no-cal sweetener from the leaf of the stevia plant is incredibly good for you. Unlike sugar, it doesn’t create an insulin response. Whereas sugar damages your pancreas, the organ that regulates blood sugar, stevia’s sterols and antioxidants actually nourish this essential organ. More
Help Mr. Pancreas do his job – try low-sugar cookie-candy
22 Sep 2015 10 Comments
in Desserts, food, health, recipes, science, Snacks Tags: avoiding sugar, diabetes, pancreas, Stevia

Nuts and fruit slow down the release of glucose into the blood.
Sugar’s role in our health
Sugar is Will’s favorite food group.
“Maybe you can cut back on the sugary things, once in a while,” Vinny suggests.
“Sugar is in everything!” Will proclaims. “It gives us energy!”
“That’s true,” Vinny agrees. “What I don’t like, though, is when we add sugar to our food, over and above what nature puts there. Have you heard about your pancreas?” More
Mares eat oats and Does eat oats
09 May 2012 14 Comments
in Breakfast foods, health, recipes, science, Snacks Tags: bananas, carbohydrates, children, diabetes, digestion, fiber, gluten free, heart, low glycemic, Native American, nutrition, oats, pemmican, sugar, traditions
“Why do Mares and Does eat oats?” asks Will. “Oats look like dry little bits of paper. Ugh. Does Bambi’s mom know something we don’t?” More
Diet Soda: Cause for Concern?
29 May 2011 6 Comments
in Drinks, food, health, science Tags: art, artificial sweeteners, avoiding sugar, children, diabetes, diet soda, nutrition, stroke, water
Too much sugar’s bad for us, but sugar-free soda could be even worse. It’s not proof positive, but new research raises concern about diet soda. Studies find higher risks for stroke and heart attack among people who drink sugar-free soda every day versus those who drink no soda at all.
The findings should be “a wakeup call to pay attention to diet sodas,” More