Is xylitol sugar as bad as normal sugar?

Answer 1

No, it is actually the opposite. Xylitol is a healthy of course when it is used in the right dosage. For example, xylitol can help prevent dental caries. There are many way that xylitol is healthy for humans. www.xlear.com has a list of products that contain xylitol which can help you become healthier. Check out their website at www.xlear.com.

Answer 2

"Normal" sugar is a) sucrose but b) not "normal" sucrose in that it's actually super-concentratedly fake (factories, industry, etc.)

"Normal sugar" can be digested by bacteria to produce lactic acid, which dissolves the calcium in your teeth and causes cavities. Furthermore, bacteria also use sucrose to stick to your teeth (so they can live longer).

Xylitol "sugar" is not really a sugar. It's a sugar alcohol, which means it contains -Oh at one of the carbon positions. In English, it's sweet "kind of like" sugar, but bacteria cannot digest it. This knocks out the two problems with sugar, but creates another one. Xylitol can be hard to digest, which means bloating, gas, etc. However, the more you take xylitol, the more accustomed your body becomes. The point is that xylitol is sweet, gives you energy (albeit much less than sugar), and it does not promote cavities.

Even better: research is starting to show that not only does it prevent cavities by starving bacteria, but it seems to ... "kill" bacteria in a sense by taking a more active role. I have no idea how it does that.

Bottom line: out of the all the sugars and the sugar alcohols in the world, concerning their effects on the human body (especially your teeth), xylitol is #1. The hardest part are the symptoms you get when you first try it out because again, bacteria hate that stuff, but the great thing about the human body is that it can acclimate. We are more complex than bacteria (probably because in our gut, is a multitude of bacteria, not just one type).

Some dentists agree xylitol is a miracle.