Re: Stevia As An Antioxidant

and there is a reason why Stevia is BANNED in the EU

but you'll never look that up

<drceephd@insightbb.com> wrote in message
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> On Dec 5, 12:13 pm, ironjustice <teamtan...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> J Agric Food Chem. 2007 Nov 27 [Epub ahead of print] Links
>> Oxidative DNA Damage Preventive Activity and Antioxidant Potential of
>> Stevia rebaudiana (Bertoni) Bertoni, a Natural Sweetener.
>> Ghanta S, Banerjee A, Poddar A, Chattopadhyay S.
>> sharm...@iicb.res.in.
>
>>
> Now you have done it Iron.
> Now Big Pharma will have to unleash their chemists, chlorinate stevia
> like sucralose, or alter it in some manner to make it patentable.
> The FDA will then outlaw all natural stevia claiming it to be untested
> or quackery, and allow only big pharma produced synthetic stevia to be
> produced and sold.
> You know as well as I do that anything natural and unpatentable will
> be attacked by the FDA for Big Pharma.
>
> Drcee