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Auspicious Aspartame Study Funded By Sweetener’s Japanese Maker Ajinomoto

Aspartame targeted for bogus study funded by parent company in Japan

Imagine for a moment that you read a news headline that proclaimed, “Study Concludes Eating French Fries Does Not Cause Obesity.” Would that get your attention? Sure it would, until you kept reading and discovered that the company who paid for that study to [...]

LLVLC On YouTube (Episode 4): How Sweet It Is To Be Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb!

In our eagerness to pump out another video in our new “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb On YouTube” series, Christine and I went a bit long with Episode 4. It’s not so much that we don’t want to do longer videos, but YouTube limits the length to NO MORE THAN 10 MINUTES.

I found out [...]

Is Coca-Cola Putting Stevia On The Fast-Track To Approval As A Sweetener?

Did you know Diet Coke in Japan is sweetened with the plant-based stevia?

About a year ago I blogged about the controversial all-natural sugar alternative called stevia. At the time, I lamented that stevia was not approved by the Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) to even be called a sweetener…yet! But that may be about [...]

Kringas: Low-Carb ‘Enjoyable’ With Chocolate

I’d like to introduce you to someone who I have grown to love and respect for the products she is offering people who are diabetic and/or on the low-carb lifestyle. Her name is Mary Jo Kringas and she is the owner of Low-Carb Specialties, makers of the most amazing sugar-free, low-carb chocolate bars you’ll ever [...]

Ornish: Low-Carb Blog ‘Powerful Force’ For Educating Public On Diet And Health

(This is fourth and final part of my interview with Dr. Dean Ornish with Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 in a four-part series already published this week. Part 4 has Dr. Ornish sharing what he thinks about sugar substitutes, his unique role working with companies like McDonald’s, the worldwide obesity epidemic, and coming [...]

Sugar ‘Taste Test’ Comparison To Splenda Turns Blind Eye To Impact On Health

I couldn’t resist sharing with you this press release bragging about how consumers “overwhelmingly prefer pure cane sugar to Splenda in taste tests.” Ooooookay, let’s see what this is all about.

Not surprisingly, the suspicious “taste tests” were commissioned by the C&H Sugar Company and was conducted on June 9 and 10 in Redwood City, [...]