Bone health, oesteroperosis-please read-

[fullofbeans]

I have mentioned before that I use Xylitol as a sweetner which despite a silly chemical sounding name is in fact a very natural product.

There are many reasons to use it but I'll give you 3 important one:

1-FOR BONES
"In studies in Finland in 1994 (mentioned in our previous article), Xylitol was shown to be able to maintain bone density in rats which had their ovaries surgically removed. (7) Without ovaries, estrogen levels in these rats plummeted — and so did the bone density in the rats which were not given Xylitol. However, in ovariectomized rats which had been given Xylitol, bone density actually increased." http://www.vrp.com/articles.aspx?ProdID=art717&zTYPE=2


2-CANNOT BE USED BY CANCER CELL
"Assays of neutral sugar metabolites from each substrate in the acid-soluble fraction of liver or AS-30D tumor showed that xylitol in the liver was converted primarily into glucose while in the tumor 80 to 90% of the xylitol remained unchanged. This hepatocellular carcinoma is also markedly deficient in the ability to synthesize acid-insoluble glycogen and glycoprotein from xylitol as compared to the liver. "
http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cg...ract/41/8/3192

3-IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR TEETH!
Xylitol is a "tooth friendly" sugar. Early studies from Finland in the 1970s found that a group chewing sucrose gum had 2.92 decayed, missing, or filled (dmf) teeth compared to 1.04 in the group chewing xylitol gums.[10] In another study, researchers had mothers chew xylitol gum 3 months after delivery until their children were 2 years old. The researchers found that the xylitol group had "a 70% reduction in cavities (dmf)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol


Ok I have used it for almost 2 years (much better taste that stevia and actually prefer it to normal sugar) but as it is also a probiotic (yes you hear right a probiotic!) you have to get used to it slowly or if you over do it make sure that that you have access to the toilette! You will need to build up the good bacteria that can deal with it once in the gut. Now I can eat as much as I want (make my cakes ect..). The problem is that because your friends are not used to it you cannot use it too much when you invite them for cakes.

I love the fact that cancer cell cannot get any energy from it and I like to think (MHO) that it damages them to have all this stuff in their cell that they cannot metabolise. Off course I am hoping that breast carcinoma react the same way as liver ones which is quite likely I should hope. Did I mention that Xylitol has 40% less calorie that sugar and does not raise insuline level at all..