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Stevia products at tea time can save 1000 calories per week

In the UK we get through a staggering 165 million cups of tea every day, with the average tea drinker having four cups each and every day. Steviana, the new alternative to sugar derived from the stevia plant, can help you save 128kcals per day.

Stevia is the based for an extra-sweet sugar

Cut calories with extra-sweet sugar

A herb that grows wild as a small shrub in parts of Paraguay and Brazil is a key ingredient in Light at Heart, an ingredient that can help you cut calories in 2012. It is made by Tate & Lyle Sugars and contains half the calories of sugar.

A sweetener could block bitter medicine tastes

Sweetener for medicine developed by scientists

I can't believe it's not bitter... that's the reaction of researchers who have been testing methods to make medication a bit easier to swallow. A high-tech sugar supplement was introduced to experts at the American Chemical Society (ACS).

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Broccoli helps kill cancer cells

We have long been told about the health benefits of superfoods but now Sulforaphane, one of the primary phytochemicals in broccoli has been proved to selectively target and kill prostate cancer cells, leaving normal prostate cells healthy and unaffected.

Over half of Brits want to shed 'at least a stone'

The study commissioned by diet aid manufacturer Slimsticks, also discovered that a worrying one in five people have followed an ‘eating is cheating’ starvation diet and one in ten have tried a liquid diet.