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Anne's Orange-and-Chocolate dessert cake *****
Orange and chocolate are very compatible flavours. This is definitely a too-easy-to-be-true dessert. Garnish with super-thin slices of orange and curls of chocolate, if you wish.
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Anne's Peter Pan 'Poison' Green Dessert *****
A (delicious) guilty pleasure made a little less so in my new interpretation -- and one of my very favourite desserts, too.
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Anne's raspberry Jello dessert Cake *****
An impressive treat for guests. Surprisingly easy, low-sugar and low-fat, too. What more could you ask of a recipe?
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Artificial sweeteners may cause weight gain *
If you're trying to lose weight, you may want to skip the sugar substitutes and go straight for the sugar.
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Big payoff in preventing diabetes, researchers say *
The 3.6 per cent of Saskatchewan residents who have Type 2 diabetes account for 15 per cent of all health-care spending in the province, according to new research that underscores the economic impact of the swelling obesity epidemic.
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Cachet No-sugar Belgian Chocolate Clusters (Garber review) **** 1/2
It really IS hard to believe there's no sugar added!
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Cachet Sugar-free Belgian Chocolate Orange Bar (Garber review) *****
We found this Belgian chocolate-and-orange cream bar satisfying and delicious.
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Coke and Pepsi battle for top sugar substitute *
Soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are setting their sights on producing natural sweeteners -- as concern over the calorie content and artificial ingredients in soft drinks grows.
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Diabetic / Diet Cherry Angel Trifle ***
We always think of this dessert around
Valentine's Day because it looks so good. If you have a
charming clear glass or crystal bowl to serve it in, it might even look too
pretty to eat -- and you'll love how easy it is to make.
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Fructose sweetening could be even worse than using other sweeteners *
According to Pharmaceutical News, a University of Cincinnati (UC) study provides new evidence that drinking large amounts of beverages containing fructose adds body fat, and might explain why sweetening with fructose could be even worse than using other sweeteners
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Garber Gastronomic: New food choices for healthier lifestyles *
What kinds of food compromises do we need to make to accommodate changing lifestyles and diet regimens?
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Garber Gastronomic: Sugar Substitutes *
How bad IS sugar for you? And are sugar substitutes safe? Anne Garber explores the options.
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Levulose (alt: Fructose) *
Fructose has also come come under suspicion recently.
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Momordica Grosvenori *
Grosvenor Momordica Fruit is the dried fruit of Momordica grosvenori Swingle. The substance appears in a diabetic-friendly product called "SlimSweet," manufactured in Tempe, AZ. It not a sugar of any kind, and therefore is a "zero" on the glycemic index.
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No-egg or restricted diet cakes & bread *
Catering to
people with allergies to wheat gluten, eggs, milk and other items, these
bakeries will make custom cakes (and bread)...
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No-sugar Chocolate cake *****
Here is the favourite chocolate birthday of my son, Kit Johnson.
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Rogers' Chocolates No-sugar added chocolate truffle selection (Garber review) **** 1/2
My favourite is the dark-chocolate-enrobed orange cream.
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Rogers' Chocolates No-sugar added dark chocolate bar (Garber review) *** 1/2
I found this delicious dark chocolate bar satisfying and delicious.
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Rogers' Chocolates No-sugar added milk chocolate bar (Garber review) *** 1/2
A Rogers no-sugar-added chocolate bar is a guilt-free pleasure.
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Sweet Poison: One woman's life-threatening experience *
The inside scoop on the dangers of aspartame.
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Unique Vancouver event highlights a team approach to diabetes *
"Live Well with Diabetes" brings the public together with a wide range of health specialists for a unique, interactive public health fair. Sunday, Nov. 5, 2-6:30 p.m., Vancouver, BC
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We should learn to subtract added sugar *
Is our innate preference for sweetness the cause of our expanding waistlines? The latest culprit to be blamed in our obesity epidemic is sugar, but not just any sugar. Researchers are pointing their fingers at high-fructose corn syrup, a liquid sweetener made from cornstarch that entered the food supply in the 1980s.
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Xylitol *
Xylitol, also called wood sugar or birch sugar, is a five-carbon sugar alcohol that is used as a sugar substitute.
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BC optometrists and podiatrists launch first-ever joint campaign to raise awareness of diabetic health care in BC *
Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness among adults under
the age of 65.
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Beachbody *
"Decide. Commit. Succeed."
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Diabetes Type 2 Drug (thiazolinediones) Doubles Heart Failure Risk *
Thiazolinediones, the name for a type of drug used to treat patients with diabetes type II, could double the risk of heart failure. . .
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Fitness in young adults helps stave off diabetes *
Risk factors for heart disease, stroke can't just be blamed on aging, study says.
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Flavourful Food is Key to Success for Healthy Eating, says Maille-commissioned survey *
Low-fat condiments best flavour solution, say dieticians.
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Garber Gastronomic: An Ice Cream 'Glace-ary' *
How can you tell what's what? Here's a guide I like to call a short "glace-ary" of terms. . .
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Healthy living and regular eye exams keep hope in sight for 200,000 British Columbians living with diabetes *
Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness among British Columbians
under age 65...
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Nine in 10 dieticians say flavourful food contributes to success in healthier eating *
More than nine in 10 dieticians agree that food flavour is important to the success of their clients' dietary changes, according to a new national poll of Registered Dieticians commissioned by Maille French Condiments.
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Panne Rizo Bakery Café **** 1/2
Panne Rizo Bakery Café is owned by two "gourmet loving" sisters whose health problems from food allergies forced them to develop wheat-free baking with that "mouth watering taste".
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Sugar use too high globally, experts report *
Soft drinks, juice targets in study that found changes in diet over 40 years.
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The good, bad and fatty *
Light on the tongue, sugarless, beloved by children, the Giant Goldfish crackers seemed to countless parents a guilt-free way to pacify a hungry, bored toddler. But laboratory tests done for The Globe and Mail and CTV have found an alarmingly high amount of trans fats in those seemingly innocuous crackers. It's the same with granola bars, microwave popcorn and many other processed foods.
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The un-cola gets un-done *
Soft-drink purveyors say they will remove colas and other carbonated drinks from vending machines in Canadian elementary and middle schools by the start of the next school year. While insisting that all its products are suitable for kids -- a dubious claim at best -- the industry acknowledges that it is responding to increasing health concerns.
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