The discovery/invention of saccharine

mvl1014

Yummy...

http://science.discovery.com/brink/top-ten/accidental-inventions/inventions-10.html

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ATXrunner

Fun link... you might enjoy this video, a lecture titled "Sugar: the bitter truth". It is worth the time, I think.

http://www.youtube.com/v/dBnniua6-oM&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1

SugarHi

Funny, I was just "stumbling" and came across the same page... came here to post it and you beat me to it :happy:

mvl1014

"Sugar: the bitter truth"

Watched the first ~60 minutes so far. Good news is the only thing I didn't already know is about the politics in the 70s that dropped food prices (but I'm not a history/politics guy and wasn't alive in the 70s

innerhottie

There is also a doccumentary on Netflix called "Sweet Deception" that talks about the increase in autoimmune disorders like MS and Lupus and also brain tumors since the introduction of Equal.

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