low caloric sweeteners have been investigated to substitute sugar as an advantage for both nutritional and medicinal purpose. these sugar substitutes are interesting particularly for concepts marketed under a natural claim. among these, stevia rebaudiana is a small shrub; its leaves are used as a sweetener. serial dilution of the hot water crude extract of s. rebaudiana leaves and aqueous solut...

Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni is a shrub-like plant of the Asteraceae family, originating from Paraguay and Brazil, where it is used as a sweetener for therapeutic preparations, such as teas and other beverages, for hundreds of years. It is often called “sweet Paraguay honey” (Genus, 2003). The sweetener compound is obtained from the leaves of the plant by extraction (Prakash et al., 2008). The swe...

BACKGROUND Observational studies have found that dietary glycemic load is positively associated with C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations in healthy humans, which suggests that the type of carbohydrate ingested influences inflammatory activity. OBJECTIVE We investigated the effect of a diet with a high content of sucrose or artificial sweeteners on the inflammatory markers CRP, haptoglobin...