Nutrition: Sweetness and Health

No link between sugar and disease has ever been substantiated. What’s more, sugar substitutes, while low in calories ,may actually stimulate the appetite

By Ellen Ruppel Shell

August 1985 Issue

About the Author

Ellen Ruppel Shell

Ellen Ruppel Shell is a professor of journalism at Boston University. She is the author of The Job: Work and It’s Future in a Time of Radical Change.