[ExI] aspartame done me wrong

[Adam Raizen]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:56, Gina Miller <nanogirl at halcyon.com> wrote:

> when I was diagnosed I switched to Stevia, which is natural with hundreds
> of folds the sweetness of sugar, so it takes a lot less.


Yes, stevia is "natural", so a lot of people think it's okay whereas
man-made chemicals are evil. Poisons occur in nature too, and I'm sure that
if you pumped rats up with mega-doses of stevia you would get enough side
effects to create a pretty scary looking web page warning against using it.

-- 
Adam Raizen <adam.raizen at gmail.com>
Timendi causa est nescire.
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