BALTIMORE, MD - Obesity and diabetes rates are soaring and doctors are scrambling for new treatments.

There's one with the potential to not only treat the health problems, but also satisfy a sweet tooth.

Doctors in baltimore led the early research on the low-calorie sweetener called Tagatose.

It's a sugar found naturally in dairy foods and used in sodas, cereals and toothpaste.

Participants who consumed Tagatose before meals did not have the typical spikes in blood sugar after eating.

Researchers think the sweetener, marketed as Naturlose, works because of the way it's metabolized in the body.

For more information on this study call 1-800-492-5538.  You can also learn more at www.naturlose.com.