By Theodora Filis NutraSweet (NutraSweet!?!) Relaunches as Natural, Stevia-Based Platform. Once considered a market leader for artificial sugar alternatives – before shutting its doors in 2014 – a new partner is returning sweetener brand NutraSweet to the market. But this time it’s going au naturel - 4/2023 ... We all have hopes that there exist sugar-free substitutes that allow us to keep eating what we want without gaining weight. But, what if those guilt-free delights caused brain tumors, seizures, joint problems, and even death? In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto knew of aspartame's past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it"might induce brain tumors." The FDA banned aspartame based on the findings, only to have Donald Rumsfeld (13th Secretary of Defense from 1975-1977) the Chairma...
It is imperative we all pay attention to the impact of our collective and personal actions on the environment. During the next decade, our global community will be unable to deal effectively with the formidable environmental challenges posed by decades of environmental mismanagement. I hope you question and research everything.