By Carolyn de la Peña
NutraSweet, Splenda, and their predecessors have loved huge, immense good fortune via promising that american citizens, specially girls, can "have their cake and devour it too," yet Empty Pleasures argues that those "sweet cheats" have fostered troubling and unsustainable consuming conduct and that the guarantees of man-made sweeteners are finally too strong to be true.
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