Don't Feel Guilty
for Sweet Cravings! Some Essentials You Need to Know About Sugar in Your Diet
If you crave sweets every day, you are not alone! Ayurvedic medicine
says that you need the sweet taste every day. But how you satisfy your
sweet tooth is up to you...and Body Ecology has some sweet alternatives
to sugar.
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Many people have an intense (and daily) desire for sweet treats, sometimes
after every meal!
Do you find yourself craving sweet foods?
Here's why:
Sweet tastes are essential to balance! We humans both enjoy and need things
that taste sweet and should not feel guilty when we have a desire for them.
Unfortunately, because we have had an over abundance of refined sugar in
the Standard American Diet for decades, we are now an obese nation. Almost
all health care professionals warn against sugar intake. Sugar,
in various forms, is found in just about all processed foods and soda pop.
Unfortunately it is also found in many so-called "healthy foods"
sold in health food stores.
But there is a way to satisfy your need for sweets AND still keep your health
too!
Sweet Is Essential
You need sweet foods to maintain your health. Foods like fruits, sweet vegetables
and grains all contain natural sugars that feed the friendly microflora
in your gut and help them grow. But the key here is do you have an abundance
of healthy microflora living inside your intestines? If so, they will eat
the sugar in these foods made by Mother Nature while you enjoy the sweet taste.
Six Tastes for Balanced Eating
For thousands of years practitioners of Ancient Ayurvedic wisdom understood
that we need six tastes in our daily meals to maintain balanced health.
Sweet as well as sour, salty, bitter, pungent and astringent
are not only pleasing, they are also healthy.
Ancient Ayurvedic tradition is a holistic system of medicine from India,
teaches that an imbalance of one of the tastes can contribute to illness,
but you can also treat disease and illness by bringing the six tastes back
into balance in your diet.
Sweet Treats
It's liberating to know that it is okay to give in to your sweet cravings
and that the sweet taste is essential to good health.
In fact, Ayurvedic medicine teaches that the sweet taste:
- Is the taste of pleasure
- Nourishes and strengthens all tissue
- Heals broken bones
- Relieves thirst
But you can have too much sweet taste even if you just eat fruits,
sweet vegetables and grains.
Too much of the sweet taste in your diet can cause:2
- Obesity
- Diabetes
- Fatigue
- Excessive sleep
- Colds
- Coughs
The Sweet Solution
What can you do instead of sugary treats and a lot of fruit? Body Ecology
offers some easy ways to satisfy your sweet tooth: Stevia
and Lakanto are natural sugar substitutes that give you the sweet taste
without calories, feeding yeast in your body, or causing a blood sugar spike
like regular sugar!
Stevia Liquid Concentrate: A Kitchen Staple
Body Ecology Lakanto All-Natural Sweetener is the healthiest,
safest, most delicious and versatile sugar substitute available because
it has:
New to the U.S. through Body Ecology's EXCLUSIVE arrangement,
Lakanto is time-tested and extensively proven in Japan. IN FACT, the
Japanese Ministry of Health doesn't just approve Lakanto for
use in Japan, they actually recommend it for weight loss, obesity
and blood sugar problems like diabetes. In fact, over 9,000 hospitals
in Japan serve Lakanto to their patients. And yes, Lakanto does have
GRAS status here in the US!
Learn
More About Lakanto and Order Today!
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Body Ecology's Stevia Liquid Concentrate is the best-tasting stevia on the
market. Made from the stevia herb (that is 200 to 300 times sweeter than sugar)
our potent natural sugar substitute has no bitter aftertaste and is calorie
free!
You can use Stevia Liquid Concentrate to make healthy lemonade, tasty
tea, and anywhere else you would use sugar or dangerous sugar
substitutes.
For more recipes and tips on how to use your Stevia, try the Stevia
Cookbook. With over 100 recipes, the Stevia Cookbook offers easy to follow
instructions to make delicious dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts
and snacks using stevia, the all-natural sweetener.
The Newest Natural Sweetener: Lakanto
Popular in Japan for years, Lakanto is our newest natural sweetener and
a healthy alternative to sugar. It looks like sugar and can be used like sugar,
but Lakanto is all natural, with none of the harmful effects of sugar... and
it has NO calories.
Lakanto has no aftertaste and unlike stevia is excellent for baking!
Please read
more about Body Ecology Lakanto and try some today!
Now you can bake Body Ecology treats that satisfy your sweet tooth. You
will no longer miss energy-robbing sugar once you try our Lakanto! For more
information, read: Honey,
Sugar, Molasses, Agave, Stevia & Other Natural Sweeteners: Which Are Actually
Good for You?
Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth
So the next time you crave sugar, understand that your body needs sweet
tastes for balance.
Once you've been on the Body Ecology program, you will find that your sweet
taste is often satisfied by sweet vegetables and our four Body
Ecology grain-like seeds.
But for those times when you want something really sweet, you can satisfy
that sweet tooth with all natural Stevia (and soon, Lakanto) so you get all
the taste and none of the calories or health damaging side effects.
Now that's a sweet solution!
Sources:
"Ayurveda- The Effects of the Six Tastes," HolisiticOnline.com.
http://www.holisticonline.com/ayurveda/ayv-taste-sweet.htm
2 "Ayurveda- The Effects of the Six Tastes," HolisiticOnline.com.
http://www.holisticonline.com/ayurveda/ayv-taste-sweet.htm
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