i love what she writes and am constantly re posting it!
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“It’s amazing, Mom. You just have some of these buttermints, 3 or 4 of them, and they taste delicious and satisfy your sweet tooth. And then, it’s like you eat it… and then you are really full. You just don’t want more food” I explained, in awestruck reverence of this miraculous food.
“Isn’t that how food works?” she asked, skeptically.
“No! No it isn’t!” I responded, enthusiastically horrified by the suggestion. ”You know that when you have lettuce with low-fat dressing for dinner, you are hungry for cereal or ice cream just 30 minutes later. That’s because fat fills you up. The healthy saturated fats in these buttermints don’t make you fat. As a matter of fact, it supports weight loss by because it provides profound satiation and energy in relation to the amount of calories.”
“Can I make these sugar free?”
Well, technically you can… but I would disown your mutilated variation of Buttermints. You see, I have some, ahem, *issues* with the so-called “healthy sugar free” sweeteners on the market. For example, I broke up with stevia last year. And extremely processed sugar alcohols, including erythritol and xylitol, ferment in the gut, feeding bad bacteria and often cause gas, bloating, and belching.Additionally, the raw honey plays an important role in satiating the sugar cravings. I promise, if you try making a batch with stevia an and another batch with the raw honey, you’ll find that you feel more satisfied with the honey batch. It’s all about making a little bit of unrefined sugar go a long way!
As you may know, I am your crazy health blogger… who eats sugar. That’s because healthy carbohydrates give your body the preferred source of fuel and is imperative to hormone balance (particularly thyroid health). Sugar free diets, meaning diets lacking in even natural sugars like fresh fruit and root vegetables, actually increase the toll of stress hormones on your body.
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