How do foods and beverages sweetened with Aspartame (Sugar Free Gold) fit into healthful eating?
Health experts agree that eating well and being physically active are keys to a healthful lifestyle. The World Health Organization also recommends a number of dietary guidelines to combat increases in chronic diseases such as obesity, high blood pressure, cancer, and diabetes. One recommendation is to limit sugars added to some foods and beverages. As a sweetener, Aspartame (Sugar Free Gold) can reduce or replace the calories in foods and beverages while maintaining great taste, offering one simple step to help people move closer to achieving a more healthful diet. Simply substituting a can of diet soft drink for a regular soft drink saves about 150 calories; substituting a packet of low-calorie tabletop sweetener for two teaspoons of sugar three times daily (e.g., in coffee and tea and on cereal) saves about 100 calories a day; and 4-oz. of Aspartame (Sugar Free Gold)-sweetened pudding substituted for regular pudding saves 80 calories.
