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Essay Archive - Aspartame and Olestra: Will We Buy the Bull?
Aspartame and Olestra: Will We Buy the Bull?
The eighties were the years of muscle building and nouvelle cuisine and we
like to call it the decade of the fitness obsession. We, the people of the
nineties, have gotten so discouraged with all of our Ab Trainers and Buns
of Steel that we have reverted to what seems to be an easy way to stay
trim: food substitutes. Sugar substitutes, such as aspartame and
Acesulfame-K have been on the market for a while but the real breakthrough
is in the huge amount of substitutes, mostly for fat, that have been
engineered and put on the market. Last year, chemists ....
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