In what I've learnt and explored with nutrition, allot of the commentary is valid and true.  However as I grow in my own journey of health, ones emotional connection to food is far more powerful then eating a restricted extremist diet.  Some comments are so agressive and judgemental that I wonder how healthy and happy the person really is!  I'm sorry but we are not animals running around the woods eating grass as our sole source of energy.  We are beautiful complex human beings with sentiments and sensory memories.  If a person truely enjoys a slice of a more healthful cake every now and then.....maybe a old family recipe with memories attached to it/ or creating a treasured treat for thier family.  I'm sorry this dose not make them some gluten sitting on a couch all day mistaking the meaning of life for sweet treats.  It's balance of tastes, of senses, of pleasures and of health.  Condeming others cannot be a healthy state of mind!
Let them eat cake!!  Go Rapadura!

I'm coming late to this debate, but I am flummoxed by the opinion so many are expressing that our sweet teeth are unnatural and, by the tone in some posts, evil.  My daughter just turned one and her very first food was breast milk, which none can argue against--it is as perfect a food as can be found on this planet, and tastes like cantaloupe  juice.  This of course means it is sweet.  Very sweet.  That makes it yummy--it makes babies want to drink it so that they stay healthy and alive.  I realize that humans do not continue to drink breast milk, but that certainly doesn't mean our taste buds fall off or should be ignored-there are many very healthy raw foods that are, by nature, sweet.  I agree that refined sugar is bad, chemically created and altered sweeteners are horrid, but to say that humans are not meant to eat sweet, well that's just silly. 

As a child, my parents wouldn't give me anything processed, they made everything from scratch and sugar was a scarcity in the house.  As I grew up eating sweet things like cherries, peaches, melons, raw peas (fresh from the garden), carrots, (steaming will really bring out the sweetness), yams, etc.,  I found that a candy bar (illicit, of course) would make me shake and feel awful; I could never eat a whole one, and this was when they were half the size they are now.  As an adult, I still find frozen dark cherries to be the sweetest thing on earth and lovely to eat on a hot summer day.  Nature provides plenty of sweet things to satisfy any craving.  And let's not forget that sugar cane is sweet and natural and if you're lucky enough to get it fresh, worth a try as a taste.

We have to be vigilant if we are going to buy things prepackaged.  Corn syrup is in everything (see the film "King Corn") and is there because it is cost effective and it creates an addiction through feelings of well being. 

There is nothing wrong in satisfying your natural need/want for sugar/sweet.  It's when you go overboard and eat it everyday, without measure, that you do damage to your body. I personally crave fats, but I am careful to eat healthy fats, like olive oil, on a daily basis to make my body happy.  And when I satisfy that need, I don't crave it.

Being a slave to your taste buds is more indicative towards your social eating habits.  Eating is meant to be a social event and those that eat in groups, lingering and visiting over a meal, are less likely to be a slave to their taste buds.  I suspect that if one is a slave, it is because the body craves social happiness and instead is given a food pacifier.  Just my opinion.

Thank you to Lucy Lock for "keepin' it real".  We all try our best everyday to eat only protein and veggies, but sometimes we need something baked.  Educating people on how to bake with Stevia is not encouraging them to sit on the couch and eat cake. Life calls for  occasions where baked treats are acceptable.