The name of it is SlimSweet, and here is the way the company advertising bills it:  "TriMedica's SlimSweet is an incredible exciting new sweetener that provides benefits no other sweetener can! Now everyone can enjoy SlimSweet's great sweet taste without worrying about calories, cholesterol, weight gain or harmful insulin surges caused by other sweeteners (even natural ones). With SlimSweet, you'll never eat sugar again!" 

 I'm not endorsing this product, merely passing on facts 
 as I found them to result from actual use.  
 Your results will probably differ widely. 

 I personally feel that advertising to be exaggerated.  
And here is more advertising to go with it.

• The First Truly Healthy Sweetener Ever!
• Does Not Raise Insulin or Blood Sugar Levels!
• Actually Burns Fat!
• Does Not Promote Fat Storage!
• Contains Zero Fat Storage!
• Contains Zero Calories Per Serving!
• Safe Even For Diabetics and Hypoglycemics!
• Does Not Raise Cholesterol!

I found out about SlimSweet from my chiropractor, or maybe it was his wife.  If I had known how expensive it was I would have refused to try it at all.  2.82 ounces cost $16.95 at that time but it looked like everyone on the web was automatically discounting it to $13.95  Even three bucks off would still be too high for me to have knowingly given it a try since I would NEVER spend that much for just 2.82 ounces of some unknown sugar substitute.  Now the price is down to $7.95 and I MIGHT have tried it.

Well, the fact is, I did try SlimSweet.  The first thing I did was quit thinking of it as a sugar substitute and began to think of it as something better than sugar.  Here's the skinny on SlimSweet the way I see it:  

In spite of manufacturer protest to the contrary, SlimSweet does NOT taste like sugar to me.  And, I'm glad of it.  If it tasted like sugar, sooner or later I'd go back to dumping sugar into my system.

This is not sugar.  
Nor does it act like sugar.  
But it is a sweetener.  

Take a big bowl of unsweetened cereal you would normally put three teaspoons of sugar on to sweeten and you would only use about 1/5 teaspoon of SlimSweet instead of those three heaping teaspoons of sugar.  The result would NOT taste as sweet as three teaspoons of sugar, BUT, going to 1/2 teaspoon of SlimSweet does not increase the sense of sweetness a bit for my taste buds.

On the plus side, it improved the flavor of every thing I ate, with absolutely no after taste. After it goes down I don't have any trouble keeping it down.  Baking or boiling doesn't seem to destroy the sweetness either.  That's a big plus for me as I do like three or four cups of Postum every month. 

I've tried all that other sugar substitute stuff;  It belongs in the garbage.  

Saccharine just about kills me to even look at it.  

Equal leaves a whang in my throat after it has gone down.  

Then there's the new aspartame free DiabetiSweet® Sugar Substitute.  With a name like that there is an automatic reflex to grab it down off the shelf to take home with you.  It is so bad I threw it in the garbage after one trial.  It might not have any aspartame in it, but it packs a whang powerful enough to make my tongue shrivel.

As for Aspartame itself?  Click HERE

"How Is SlimSweet Different  
From Other Sugars And Sweeteners?

Most people don't realize that common sweeteners such as table sugar, honey, brown sugar, high fructose corn syrup, Stevia and artificial sweeteners such as Equal and Sweet ON Low are all high glycemic, which means they WILL elevate insulin and blood sugar (glucose) levels. Elevated insulin and glucose levels encourages the body to store fat and greatly increases your chances of developing serious illnesses. 

"SlimSweet is 15 times sweeter than sugar but is low glycemic and does not elevate insulin or blood sugar levels. SlimSweet is also thermogenic, which means that it helps burn stored fats without adding calories."

Now what about the rest of the company's claims?  

I have no way of gauging calories, cholesterol, or weight gain so leave me out of that discussion.  Some of them there words I don't even recognize.  

However, when it comes to insulin surges I was able to measure results and I can tell you for sure that insulin spikes did not happen when I used SlimSweet.  That news is good enough, but there's better news.  On those first days when I used SlimSweet, my sugar level plunged dramatically with exercise where before it had always risen alarmingly.  (Yeah, I know; that's backwards from most diabetics.)

Again, let's put this into perspective here.  All I did was ADD SlimSweet to what I was already eating and my sugar readings went DOWN.  For example, where I was eating oatmeal made out of cardboard WITHOUT any kind of sweetener at all, I added SlimSweet and my sugar level went down.  Incidentally, the oatmeal became more edible too.  This wonderful state of affairs only lasted a few months, but it was wonderful while it lasted.

Results almost as good were obtained by adding SlimSweet to products already naturally sweet, like apples.  When I added some, my sugar levels went down -- not nearly as much, but still, my sugar levels went down.  I was impressed.

Furthermore, my cravings for sugar saturated goodies was greatly reduced.  If you're diabetic you know the times I mean, when the ONLY thing you want to eat MUST have sugar in it.  When a sugar craving hits me these days I can swirl up some SlimSweet in a glass of simple water and drink it down with a smile instead of a shudder. My craving will virtually stop in a matter of minutes.  Now, that's worth any price.  

However, it wasn't the results that sold me on SlimSweet; it was the taste that sold me.  Just one soda pop sweetened with any sugar substitute like these would do me a year or two.  But I can easily see drinking an orange, grape, or root beer pop sweetened with SlimSweet though.

You know as well as I do that SlimSweet might not do you a nickel's worth of good; and if you are as cheap as I am you'll never try it. That won't hurt my feelings any as it obviously makes good sense.  

Now if you do give SlimSweet a try, and if you do like it enough to go on using it, I would urge you to use this change of diet as a transition period.  For example:

1.  quit putting ANY kind of sweetener in your cocoa.  The fact is, cocoa tastes better without sweetener. The Aztecs didn't bother with sweetener; you don't have to either.  
2. Quit putting any kind of sweetener in your Raisin Bran.  Leave the sweetener out and you can actually taste the raisins.  
3. Don't put any sweetener on your Crispy Rice.  If your unsweetened cereal doesn't taste better without added sweetener, add some cinnamon to it, or as a last resort, some vainilla flavoring.  (Both these ingredients are found at your local health food store and are very different from what you find at the grocery store)
4. Quit putting any kind of sweetener in your salad dressing.  Wait a minute, I'm getting carried away with my own enthusiasm on that one.  You really need SOMETHING in that salad dressing to make most salads edible. 

 Other than that, use the SlimSweet only where absolutely necessary to make the food stay down, like a heaping helping on your broccoli.

Now, one last caution.  SlimSweet comes in two forms, first, in little individual packets like you see at restaurants, and second, in a shaker bottle.  Stay away from that shaker bottle if you live in a damp climate.  Just a few days after SlimSweet in the shaker bottle is opened it turns into a thick mush you'll have to carve out with a very tiny spoon.  Then if it hardens you'll need a pry bar and a sledge hammer.

Click HERE to order SlimSweet online.  I don't think this is the manufacturer's own web site, but it goes out of the way to to help you make an intelligent decision.

Or maybe you can negotiate a sweet deal from your local chiropractor like I do.

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