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In the war on Fat, science has spent decades on an antidote to one main offender.
-Sugar.
Because it’s not fat that makes you fat, it’s all the stuff that ruins your blood-sugar & insulin.
And one thing all phony-sugars had in-common, is that they were a bit iffy on what exactly their compounds did once inside your body.
Now we can add a possible link to stroke & dementia to their resume, but previous research may explain why…
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At the recent Dallas, Texas bullfight of the American Chemical Society, swanky matadora Mercedes G. Lopez trotted-out her newest masterpiece:
A naturally-derived sweetener that doesn’t raise blood-sugar. (sounds oxymoronic just like “powdered-alcohol”, right?)
Somehow this odd cousin…
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A lot of times when you read new health info on the internet, you have to take it with a grain of salt.
Well Eric Lipton helps shed some new light on just how bad that can get with his piece at the NYT on the shadowy showdown between the Sugar and Corn Industries and their operators (which hopefully doesn’t include the Rutgers work on Soda).
The digest reads abit like one of those old “Spy Vs. Spy” cartoons,…
In this podcast, Leonard and Robert have a fascinating info-packed talk about:
1) Biochemistry
2) Metabolic syndrome
3) Excess insulin
4) Calorie-starvation
5) Mixed hypothalamus signals
6) Fatty liver disease
7) Vicious-circles
8) Wrongly-demonized fats…
OLÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉÉ!!!!!
FINALLY you don’t have to go out all the way to the Health Food Store to get your hands on some non-lethal, non-sugar sweetener.
Years and years after the Nutrasweet corporation helped to scuttle Stevia into the “Supplements” category,
Even though it’s been on the GRAS list in Europe for quite awhile, it -or at least MegaCorp Cargill’s version of the sweetener is now GRAS as far as El Fed is concerned…
Track 4 from “Transistor”, by 311
-or a Star Wars Trilogy Sandwich.
Okay, this one’s been on the shelf and now the hot weather is officially here, I thought it was time to send it out.
Awhile back, I noticed a google ad here on the site and thought, “Soda with Stevia? -NO WAY!”
-I immediately shot out an email & Stacey Fujimura + the good folks at Zevia sent us out a sixpack of their soda…
