I Love Aspartame

Diet Pepsi recently announced that it would be removing the aspartame from its formula and replacing it with sucralose. As a connoisseur of both artificial sweeteners among many others, I reject this notion. Aspartame is great. I love aspartame.
Adam Levine Ruins Perfectly Nice Weddings in New Maroon 5 Video
Maroon 5—a band born from the daydreams of a PacSun CEO who wanted to know what it would sound like if his store made music—has released the video for their new single "Sugar." In it, Adam Levine—the human manifestation of a Hurley visor (that the PacSun website recommends wearing backwards)—and the Oakley…
'Honest' Version of Coca Cola's Anti-Obesity Ad Is Actually a Scary Truth Bomb
Here's the new Coca-Cola commercial, in which the brand brags about all it's doing to help people consume fewer calories: "Across our portfolio of over 650 beverages, we now offer over 180 low and no calorie choices," the narrator explains. If you like, you can also watch the new Coca-Cola commercial explaining how…
Sugar Company's Ad Concept: Sweet, Sweet Pastries Are as Good as Porn
A new ad campaign for Sugar In The Raw gives new meaning to food porn: A chocolate cake is photographed like a crotch, purposely pixelated and called a "forbidden pleasure," with the words "enter here." Cupcakes with cherry "nipples" are censored, as though they are breasts. Sure, it's a cheeky play on the brand's…
Filmmaker Makes a Compelling Case in Favor of NYC Soda Ban
Filmmaker Casey Neistat made a little documentary for the New York Times about Mayor Bloomberg's infamous soda ban, which, Neistat explains, doesn't really ban as much as people who are super-covetous of their freedom to drink as much liquified sugar in a single gulp seem to think.
High Fructose Corn Syrup Fails to Reinvent Itself as 'Corn Sugar'
The makers of high fructose corn syrup are no doubt crying sugar sweet tears into their sodas today over the news that the FDA has ruled that they cannot change the name of their product to "corn sugar." The Corn Refiners Association had asked to change the name because they said people had a "bad impression of HFCS…
Sugar Is Making Us Stupid
As we all know, everything delicious is terrible for you. That is especially true of sweets, which are so tasty but also can cause nasty things like diabetes. Still, most of us are able to convince ourselves that eating sugar probably won't kill us. Sure, but you know what will happen if we keep stuffing our faces…
We Live in a Country Where Two-Year-Olds are Getting Root Canals
Sick of hearing about sugar and all the ways it's wrecking our bodies? Too bad: Today there's yet another scary report about the hazards of sweetness. Today's New York Times goes inside an oral surgery operating room where a two-and-a-half year old is getting a root canal and some fillings, because 11 of his 20 baby…
Kids Are Eating Sugar Like It's Going Out of Style (Which It Is)
There has been a lot of fretting lately about just how much sugar we're all consuming, but we are particularly freaked out about what our kids are eating. Well, now it turns out we're right to worry because they are eating a shit-ton of sugar every day. Why? Well, for the same reason we grown-ups do: because having…
Did Vogue Photoshop Sugar From Dear Sugar?
Novelist Cheryl Strayed recently revealed that she's the heart-melting advice genius behind Dear Sugar, and she's also just come out with a book about her months-long solo hike up the West Coast. Vogue interviewed her for its March issue — and appears to have Photoshopped her beyond all recognition.
Your Brain Doesn't Know the Difference Between Ice Cream and Crack
We all joke about being addicted to dessert or salt or various other vices, but in the case of ice cream, one new study has shown that it actually does share some characteristics with drugs. It sets off the pleasure centers of our brain in the same way, but it's also now clear that when you eat a lot of ice cream, you…
Is Sugar the Next Booze?
Sugar is delicious. It makes a bad day a little brighter; it makes food taste a little better; it makes cupcakes and pies. Sure, it may not be good for us, but why would we ever want to get rid of it? Well, we wouldn't want to, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't. At least that's what a new commentary published in the…
Enabling Mom Throws Sugar-Addicted Child Elaborate, 'Candy Fantasy' Preschool Graduation Party
Derek, 5, has just graduated from preschool
and his mother Donna wants to throw the most decadent and expensive candy-themed party ever — Derek's addiction to sweets be damned! Though her son clearly has an affinity for the sugary stuff, through the season premiere episode of TLC's Outrageous Kid Parties made it…
