Liquorice tea is tons sweeter than sugar and you can get it in teabag form in health food shops.

One tea bag lasts about three drinks - you can drink it on its own but because I have a sweet

tooth I use it to flavour other teas etc. It has health benefits as well. It seems that most people

know about stevia but I haven't seen anyone mention liquorice tea. 

I've just rejoined this wonderful site and didn't introduce myself before so now's a good time to - and just wanted to say that I've fallen on and off the sugar wagon for a while but even with cutting  down a lot it has made a huge difference to my energy levels and weight. I was always struggling with being about 10 pounds (5 kilos) overweight but with (almost) no sugar it's (mostly) gone. Reading David's wonderful books made me realise how our whole society is fuelled on sugar - how every social occasion, every celebration, every happy or sad occasion - birthdays and wakes! - are fuelled by sugar. Alcohol plus sugar is a popular combination too - think of cocktails on a girls' night out or Bailey's Irish Cream type drinks at the end of a night out etc. So it is really hard, socially. But I've almost done it, and am so much the better for it. 

Before, I was on skim milk for yrs and decades - I wouldn't dream of touching full cream milk etc. But after reading Big Fat Lies virtually the day it was published, I now drink full cream milk - and I have two to three cappuccinos a day - and my weight has fallen, not risen. It's definitely sugar that's the problem, not fats, but v hard to convince people of that. I lend my books and I give them as presents and I try to write about David's research in my job - I write lots on health. 

Penny Hanley.