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Evil or harmless? If you exert some self- control, the effects non-nutritive natural and artificial sweeteners are about to have on the amount of sweetness it takes to satisfy you is not enough to make you fat - I mean, you are no fattening pig, but an intelligent human being with a free will and a decent degree of self-control. Some of you may have seen my post an a recent sweetener review in the SuppVersity Facebook News , already. In said post , I mention that Katharine Mary Wright makes the same proposal I did in a previous article on artificial sweeteners: the possibility of getting used to the intense sweetness could be, even if the sweeteners are non-toxic and non-insulinogenic, an issue we should not discard lightly. After all, someone who has been consuming his coffee with a ton of stevia for years is not likely to notice the calorie overload, when he happens to drink one the sugar-monsters at Starbucks. That being said, my rationale has hitherto been based on the assump...

Figure 1: Obese highschool students have a 111% (boys) and 76% (girls) increased risk of relational bullying. ( Kukaswadia. 2011 ) [Note: This is a direct sequel to the last installment ] Delicious! "Milk and vanilla and not a single bacteria in it! How much better can it get?" You are sitting at your desk in the elementary school and dream yourself back to the Kindergarten, when Mrs. Youesdeay's attacks against your Snickers bars still was the only thing you had to fear. Mrs. Undarstant is nice. She likes you. You always do your homework, never complain or talk to others during the lessons. Unfortunately, the latter is in parts a consequence of the fact that the other kids don't like you. "Fatso!", "No, I don't want to hold his hand, Mrs. Undarstant. His hands are sweaty and gooey from the candy he is constantly scoffing down.", ... and these are only the friendlier abuses and rejections you are facing on a daily basis. "Are they s...