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Despite being bombarded with the news that sugar<\/a> contributes to obesity, diabetes, tooth decay and a whole host of other unhealthy conditions, we still continue to spoon it into our tea and digest it by the chock loads in our ice cream, cereals and pretty much everything you find on the supermarket shelves.<\/p>

Whether you have a sweet tooth<\/a> or not, life without sugar isn\u2019t feasible, so instead of going cold turkey altogether, here are 5 alternatives to sugar that will give you the taste without the spike in blood levels and the subsequent sugar crash that could follow.<\/p>

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