The best sugar I can think of getting is search for your local raw honey supplier (make sure it's UNpasteurized, meaning it has all of its microrganisms still alive)

Stevia is also a good natural alternative as it is from a flower that is a cousin of the Crusanthumum, again ensure it's unrefined raw form

raw cane sugar is good because it is RAW (raw means unrefiened and will still contain its mineral balance), I just found a bag of raw cane sugar the other day and I am using it

rule of thumb: any sugar that is UNrefined is good, refined sugar bad, diabetics can eat any sugar that is UNrefined, it's the refined sugars that cause diabetes (that and MSG)

AVOID: refined table sugar, aspartame, etc.