6/29/09

Agave: the healthy and delicious alternative to sugar

While an occasional dessert is the ultimate mood lifter, too much sugar in your diet will be detrimental to your health. Enter agave: the healthy and delicious alternative to sugar.

When you consume sugar, insulin is produced in your body, and too much insulin has been linked to all kinds of problems such as depression, lethargy, hypertension, heart disease, type II diabetes and even Alzheimer’s. So if you really enjoy sweets, agave might be the answer for you. Agave is a sweet syrupy liquid found inside a plant that grows in Mexico.

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