Looking For A Natural Sugar Alternate For Diabetics?

21st March, 2011 - Posted by health news - No Comments

Sugar, as most people know, originates either from sugar cane or sugar beet. Sucrose extorted from cane sugar is a disaccharide and carbohydrate, stored by plants as a reserve energy supply to be utilized when required. Humans cannot promptly make use of sucrose, and it is metabolized in the body to glucose which requires the hormone insulin to help convert it into energy. Insulin is produced in the pancreas, and a lack of it, or the body’s malfunction to make use of it adequately, is referred to as diabetes. Continue reading Read More