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A sweet tale: the son who reinvented sugar to help diabetic dad
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1182" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/28/a-sweet-tale-the-son-who-reinvented-sugar-to-help-diabetic-dad" target="_blank"><strong>A sweet tale: the son who reinvented sugar to help diabetic dad - The Guardian</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>The natural substitute helps diabetics, combats obesity and tackles climate change </strong></p><p></p><p>Javier Larragoiti was 18 when his father was diagnosed with diabetes. The teenager had just started a degree in chemical engineering in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/mexico" target="_blank">Mexico</a> City. So he dedicated his studies to a side project: creating an acceptable alternative to help his father and millions of Mexicans like him avoid sugar.</p><p></p><p>“It’s only when you know someone with this sickness that you realise how common it is and how sugar intake plays a huge role,” he says. “My dad tried to use stevia and sucralose, just hated the taste, and kept cheating on his diet.”</p><p></p><p>The young chemist started dabbling with <a href="https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-996/xylitol" target="_blank">xylitol</a>, a sweet-tasting alcohol commonly extracted from birch wood and used in products such as chewing gum.</p><p></p><p>“It has so many good properties for human health, and the same flavour as sugar, but the problem was that producing it was so expensive,” he says. “So I decided to start working on a cheaper process to make it accessible to everyone.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1182, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/28/a-sweet-tale-the-son-who-reinvented-sugar-to-help-diabetic-dad'][B]A sweet tale: the son who reinvented sugar to help diabetic dad - The Guardian[/B][/URL] [B]The natural substitute helps diabetics, combats obesity and tackles climate change [/B] Javier Larragoiti was 18 when his father was diagnosed with diabetes. The teenager had just started a degree in chemical engineering in [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/mexico']Mexico[/URL] City. So he dedicated his studies to a side project: creating an acceptable alternative to help his father and millions of Mexicans like him avoid sugar. “It’s only when you know someone with this sickness that you realise how common it is and how sugar intake plays a huge role,” he says. “My dad tried to use stevia and sucralose, just hated the taste, and kept cheating on his diet.” The young chemist started dabbling with [URL='https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-996/xylitol']xylitol[/URL], a sweet-tasting alcohol commonly extracted from birch wood and used in products such as chewing gum. “It has so many good properties for human health, and the same flavour as sugar, but the problem was that producing it was so expensive,” he says. “So I decided to start working on a cheaper process to make it accessible to everyone.” [/QUOTE]
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