June 20, 2012
Nothing soothes my sweet tooth quite like a cool cup of chocolate pudding on a hot afternoon. Except if it’s loaded with sugar. The sugar free pudding that you can get in the stores usually is sweetened with Aspartame, which always tastes a little funny to me, sort of metallic and synthetic. I prefer something [...]
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February 18, 2012
That could become a common headline if the proposal suggested in a Feb. 2 Nature paper by University of California, San Francisco nutritionists ever gets taken seriously. A post by Wired Science’s Brandon Kein entitled “Sugar May Be Bad, But is the Alternative Worse?” weighs the pros and cons of refined white sugar vs. artificial sweeteners. But [...]
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