March 2011
xandira asked: How lond ago did you get your tumblr? because to get such a common name blows my mind!
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What's in your diet soda: the health risks of...
wcfoodies:
In 1965, a chemist at G.D. Searle & Co discovered aspartame. By 1981, aspartame was approved by the FDA and for sale under Searle’s trademarked brand name, NutraSweet. On aspartame’s shoulders, an entirely new arm of the food and drink industry was born: the calorie-free-sweetener ‘diet’ market.
In 1980 - a year before the FDA approved NutraSweet, and its active ingredient,...
