Me with a cup of tea on a cold May afternoon using Stevia extract!

Just a few days ago I was on a quest at my local supermarkets to buy a can of black beans. All three markets that I went to, every can of black beans had sugar in it. I couldn’t believe how hard it was to find an ordinary plain can of black beans without sugar. I ended up going to my local co-op and found organic black beans along with a much higher price tag. Sad!

Do you know that the average American eats one cup of sugar every day, or 210 pounds a year! It’s a fact when any label that claims to be “no fat” or “low-fat” has high levels of sugar listed on it which will be stored in your body as fat anyway.

I don’t know how “hardcore” I’m going to get with this “anti-sugar” pilgrimage mind-set, but I know after reading, “The Healing Powers Of Enzymes” by Dr. Fuller, I forever will view sugar as highly detrimental to my health.

So with that said I’m like everybody else…I like my sweets! What can I do that’s going to help me overcome this dilemma? Whole foods are – the – best – such as dried fruits using them to sweeten salad dressings, and  my steel cut oats in the mornings. The other option that I’ve found and I’m using when needed is, “Organic Stevia Extract” my “super anti-sugar hero fix”!

What is Organic Stevia?

Stevia is a shrub in the sunflower family, native to tropical regions. It’s commonly referred to “sweetleaf” due to the sweetness of the leaves. Stevia Extract (this is what I use) has up to 300 times the sweetness of sugar and yet it has low or no affect on your blood glucose. If this isn’t good enough read this.. Stevia has NO calories! Stevia also contains protein, fiber, complex carbohydrates and vitamins which means…it’s good for you (within limits of course).

Wellness, what does it mean to you and how important is it to you? That’s what you have to ask yourself. When you are young and you feel good eating (digesting) sugar unconscionably it doesn’t seem like a big deal, but staying on a path of unconscious destructive eating will compound over time creating Hugh health issues.

Likewise making conscious effort to change the way we view food (sugar) and make simple wellness choices everyday will compound over time creating significant wellness results! It’s “The Slight Edge” working for you or against you by the choices you make.

Debby Beachy