Stick with sugar. Artificial stuff will make a mess of you. If you are determined to avoid sugar then try honey. Just avoid the stuff that came out of a lab tube.

Xylitol IS natural. Part of the reason we get so sick eating sugar is because we didn't evolve eating refined sugar. We don't get a lot of the natural sugars and sugar alcohols our bodies are made to use. Xylitol is one of them.

I'd say the opposite of 586: get off your refined sugar habit.