Nutritional nuggets

Thought I might periodically share some nuggets of useful dietary info with you, as I discover them on my course.
As you know by now, I have excluded quite a few things from diet, and sugar is one of them. Sugar is bad, bad, bad! Just don't eat it!
The WHO (World Health Organisation) guidelines for RDA (recommended daily amount) of refined sugar is....zero. We just don't need to add it to our diet, as we obtain our energy from so many other sources.
Unfortunately, most of us have a sweet tooth, and there is an alternative! It's called Xylitol, and you may also have heard of it as Sorbitol. It has none of the negative effects on blood sugar and teeth that normal sugar does, and you need to eat far less, as it is very sweet. This link will take you a site that tells you all about its positive benefits, http://www.xlear.com/xylitol/ but the great thing about it is that it's perfectly natural.
Even better, you can now buy it in Tescos! As with everything remotely healthy, it is quite expensive (around £2,75 for 225g -eek!). The good news is that as you cut down on sugar, you will need to eat less and less, and 225g will last you ages. I bake my legendary breakfast muffins with it, and it tastes great.
Try it and let me know what you think.