The Stevia Story

"The Stevia Story: a Tale of Incredible Sweetness and Intrigue" details the FDA's attempt to suppress a naturally sweet, noncaloric herb with a long-standing safety record that is already used in many countries as a healthy alternative to both sugar and artificial sweeteners.

Linda and Bill Bonvie co-authored the Stevia Story with Donna Gates, a nutritional consultant and expert on candidiasis based in Atlanta. Linda and Bill originally chronicled the stevia saga in the Jan/Feb '96 issue of New Age Journal magazine.

To order the Stevia Story
please go to Donna Gates'
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or call: 1-800-4STEVIA

THE STEVIA STORY TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword by James S. Turner, author of The Chemical Feast
and Making Your Own Baby Food.

Chapter 1 - Take another look at your sweetener
Distress with a sugar coating
The synthetic picture: how sweet it isn't
The answer that's been there all along

CHAPTER 2 -- Centuries-old appeal and contempory intrigue
A powerfully sweet native tradition
A New World "discovery"
Raising stevia -- and the stakes
Rediscovered in Japan
The FDA says nay
Substantiated suspicions and spurned petitions
A most peculiar paradox

CHAPTER 3 -- What's wrong with stevia?
The three-decade-old study the FDA loves to quote
Scraping the bottom of the research barrel
How about this? - a hypothetical hypoglycemic effect
The FDA's double standard
A verdict from the land of 'good science'

CHAPTER 4 -- What's wrong with the FDA?
Wiley and his Poison Squad
Inadmissible evidence in the court of expert opinion
A wrong turn away from the right of the consumer

CHAPTER 5 -- A craving for sweets
The perfect natural sweetener
Sugar highs and lows
Beyond sweetening
The difference in cooking with stevia

CHAPTER 6 -- A sweetener by any other name
Fresh stevia leaves
Dried leaves
Stevia extracts
Liquid concentrates
Stevia as a dietary supplement

CHAPTER 7 -- Home sweet home-grown stevia
How to start your own stevia patch
The care and feeding of stevia
Gathering autumn stevia leaves
Unlocking the sweetness in your harvest
Growing stevia without land

CONCLUSION
COOKING WITH STEVIA
STEVIA RECIPES
NOTES
INDEX