To start with, it’s useful to know if there are any real health benefits and advantages that are attributed to consuming Stevia.
Yes, stevia is much sweeter than sugar and contains no carbohydrates or calories and everybody knows that. But are there other possible major benefits?
Native Latin-Americans used it for centuries as a sweet treat and breath-freshener, but do their claims of stevia being a health food with medicinal properties by itself hold any basis in reality?
Stevia & Diabetes
In the early 70’s, Japan begun cultivating Stevia as an alternative to artificial sweeteners like saccharin after suspecting them of being a potential carcinogen. Fast forward to our days and stevia takes 40% of the sweetener market share in Japan, being used extensively in homes and commercial soft drinks … The Japanase are also using stevia as a treatment for type 2 diabetes.
One research studying the effects of stevia, aspartame, and sucrose on food intake, satiety, and postprandial glucose and insulin levels found similar results and showed that compared to sucrose or aspartame consumers, human stevia consumers had lower post-meal blood sugar levels and much lower post-meal insulin levels.
Continue reading on the next page to learn if there are any real health benefits provided by Stevia …