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...true. Stevia, used for centuries by the natives of Paraguay, was 30 times sweeter than sugar. But the plant's leaves, available as ground-up powder in health-food stores for the past few decades, never quite caught on. The likely reason was a pronounced aftertaste that eclipsed its zero-calorie advantage. While Stevia's loyal aficionados liked the idea of ingesting a whole food, many calorie-conscious consumers chose the pastel-packet route of artificial sugar substitutes - Sweet'n Low (pink), Splenda (yellow) and Equal (blue). (See a special report on the science of appetite...
...received handwritten letters from consumers thanking us and saying they've been waiting for a zero-calorie natural sweetener that tasted good and was sold at a price they could afford," says Ann Tucker, director of marketing for Truvia, noting that people bake and cook with the product too. She adds that consumer research was conducted on four continents and in seven countries for several years prior to launch. The growing demand for natural products was confirmed. (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...
...Tears came to his eyes (they often do) as he voiced this last fear. But then he remembered that the fiber of ordinary Americans is the one thing Glenn Beck need never fear. So he squared his quivering chin to the camera and held up a snapshot of ground zero, still empty eight long years after the World Trade Center was destroyed...
Weatherl noted in his article many startling statistics about sexual violence on college campuses and attempted to offer insight by explaining that a majority of Harvard students have sex with zero or one partners. We are happy that Weatherl knows his facts, but he may be surprised to know that freshmen do too, because they learn these statistics and more only minutes into their workshops. Facilitators share these facts to acknowledge that there is a broad spectrum of sexual experience at Harvard, but issues of consent affect everyone. Unfortunately, simply because a student does not want to have sex does...
...process of expanding beyond Peru's borders, and Kiser ticks off a long list of restaurants that could follow the same path. He expects there to be at least 50 Peru-based food franchises operating by the end of the decade. That's up from zero in 2000. (See more pictures of what the world eats...