WORKING CLASS FOODIES: What's in your diet soda: the health risks of aspartame
12 months ago • 208 notesIn 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’…
