Weight Loss without Worry

“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”  — Sir Walter Scott

     Do food companies do this on purpose?  I have found a list of alternate names for sugar over at FitSugar.com that is roughly a mile long.  Part of the list appears below, those ending in -itol are usually classified as sugar alcohol, they are often found in sugar-free candies and other products and are hard for the body to digest, in fact too many of them have a laxative effect.  The rest of the list is hidden in our everyday foods so read your labels carefully if you are reducing or eliminating sugar from your diet.

 Here are the most common ones:

• sucrose
• lactose
• glucose
• dextrose
• honey
• fructose
• maltose

Some others you might have seen:

• barley malt
• beet sugar
• brown sugar
• cane-sugar
• caramel
• carob syrup
• corn syrup
• diatase
• diastatic malt
• ethyl maltol
• fruit juice
• fruit juice concentrate
• glucose solids
• golden sugar
• golden syrup
• grape sugar
• high-fructose corn syrup
• malt syrup
• maltodextrin
• maltose
• mannitol
• molasses
• raw sugar
• sorghum syrup

For the full list go to FitSugar.com