Artificial Sweeteners - Where is the research?
An article popped up today that inspired me to go on a dig into the latest research into artificial sweeteners and what we know about their effects on the body over time. The VICE article focuses more on the strange history of how, then CEO of a pharmaceutical company, Donald Rumsfeld (yes, this Donald Rumsfeld), got the FDA to approve aspartame despite questionable safety. The long and short of it: it was a "controversial" approval. Repeated, third-party assessed research