Many people are concerned that stevia is dangerous because it’s associated with infertility. This is misinformation. Stevia is a natural sweetener derived from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant, native to South America. Also known as sweet weed, sweet leaf,...

There are plenty of medical practitioners who will repeat that eating "too much salt" will increase your likelihood of developing high blood pressure. There's a lot of information on that from a growing number of scientists, and it's a salty debate. In fact, Dr. Sean...

The artificial sweetener aspartame is primarily made up of aspartic acid and phenylalanine. The phenylalanine has been synthetically modified to carry a methyl group, which provides most of the sweetness. That phenylalanine methyl bond, called a methyl ester, is very...