Many people use artificial sweeteners or sugar substitutes because they think they are cutting calorie intake and will lose weight. Volume 1 of the Encyclopedia of Food Chemistry identified five non-nutritive sweeteners approved by the Food and Drug Administration as GRAS, or generally recognized as safe: acesulfame-K or ace-K, aspartame, neotame, saccharin and sucralose. But studies have shown that... 

Are vitamins actually killing you, giving you heart attacks, and perhaps even extracted from the depths of Hades? If you follow some of the highly deceiving studies on the matter of vitamin usage that fail to actually tell you when they’re using petrochemically derived ‘junk’ vitamins in all of their testing groups — then the answer may be a very loud ‘yes.’ And, unfortunately, that makes... 

It is the ultimate dream of socialist control freaks to dictate every detail of your life: what you eat, what you think, what you say and even whether you have the right to self defense. New York City Mayor Bloomberg tried to take his control freak power grab one step beyond all reason with a recent regulatory ban on large sodas. But not all sodas, mind you: diet sodas laced with toxic aspartame were... 

A sweetener used in Diet Coke and many other products is to undergo a safety review over fears that it has harmful effects on human health. An artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke is to undergo an urgent EU safety review. Aspartame is ingested every day by millions of people around the world in more than 6,000 well-known brands of food, drink and medicine. However, it has been the subject of a number... 

Disclaimer: The following story may be in error. We have received an email where we were told that Neotame is not allowed in US Organic Food. Just when we thought that buying “Organic” was safe, we run headlong into the deliberate poisoning of our organic food supply by the FDA in collusion with none other than the folks who brought us Aspartame. NutraSweet, a former Monsanto asset, has developed... 

Is your water safe and healthy to drink? The truth finally hits the TV in Australia.  Read More »