anyone using any sweeteners - need for diabetics

Just stay away
from SWEETS , SWEETENERS 
and
   ’’SUGAR FREE ’’

stevia or sweet tulsi

Whats better than pure honey

using sugarfree natura for a long time now.

Honey works. But for making sweets you could go with stevia
It’s a plant based product. So completely natural.

get few stevia plants in house and use their leaf

Sugar free tablets are harmful than regular sugar since it has more artificial chemicals.
95% honey sold in market by saying pure honey were not actually pure.. they’re adding sugar syrup to honey (it will shoot up diabetes higher very easily)
Try palm jaggery or unprocessed sugar (brown in color).. if possible honey (when you know its really honey)
regular intake of fenugreek in early morning will control diabetes very well.

As opposed how easily people generalise sugarfree (aspartame) as harmful, I would say sugarfree isn’t all that bad when you consume them only in your tea or coffee (just 2 to 3 pills per day). Safe limits as per European Food Safety Authority is 40 mg per kg of body weight. Example: Someone who weighs 70 kgs can safely consume 2.8 grams of sugar free without any concern.

If you consider a typical sugarfree natura sachet, each sachet has .75 grams of sugar free so a 70 kgs person can safely consume 3 to 4 sachets per day.

Leaving this aside, other alternatives that you can explore are stevia and erythritol.

Stevia is made out of plant leaves that are naturally sweet (Stevia plants). I have used it quite a lot and never had much issues with taste but most of my family members dislike it saying it leaves a bad after taste.

Other alternative is erythritol. It’s a sugar alcohol extracted from corn. The taste is better than Stevia but it’s quite expensive comparatively. Apart from being expensive, you have to use large portions to get equal sweetness as sugar. I used erythritol to bake some cakes at home when I am on a serious diet to cut down carbs but I don’t use erythritol regularly for coffee etc at home.

Who asked to restrict sugar for DM?

Another misconception is about Jaggery. Just because doctors advice it’s better to consume jaggery over sugar it doesn’t mean it’s a sweetener from heaven.

Sugar is 100% carbs whereas Jaggery is 85% carbs. So it’s a mere difference of 15% and doesn’t make it something normally edible for someone with diabetes.

Palm jaggery is even worse for diabetic patients. Yes, it has some health benefits due to presence of Iron, Potassium, Magnesium etc. but has close to 90% carbs which is worse than normal jaggery made out of sugar cane.

Type II Diabetes is a lifestyle disease and can be cured with lifestyle changes. One such change is to learn to live a less “sweet” life. All artificial sweeteners are harmful. We do not really need sweetener in day to day life. It does not take more than 30 days to adapt to non-sweetened Tea and coffee. Switching to black/green tea and using cinnamon powder for flavouring and sweetening is also one option.
And one can do without eating sweets also. If at all, there is a craving for sweets, condensed milk and fresh coconut pulp can be considered. Instead of sweets, unsweetened chocolate/cocoa can also be an option. And if one leads a controlled lifestyle, with low carbs, and zero intake of white wheat flour, use of meethi (fenugreek) as sugar level controllers, one sweet once a week does not really matter.
PS : I was detected with Type II DM 3 years back with HbA1c reading of 7.9 at that time. Now with lifestyle changes and minimum medication, I am physically much fitter and have HbA1c of less than 5.5

buy stevia leafs from amazon.

Dont use any sweetners very harmful than sugar too and also its costly
Stop eating sweet products or eat 2-3 times a month

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