The deception of the once hailed Sweetener Stevia

[singular_me]

back in the early 2000, I only had a few months of stevia craze... then became a raw-foodist.

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‘Maybe it’s not so sweet now… If you’ve thought stevia, the natural alternative to sugar and artificial sweetners with aspartame, et al., is too good to be true, there may be a catch. Check out this textbook written in 1970 by Paul and Anne Ehrlich, the precursor to the textbook Ecoscience they wrote with Obama Science Czar John P. Holdren seven years later. The book advocates all manner of horrors to depopulate what they consider an overpopulated world, including everything from adding sterilants to the water and food to producing a sterilizing virus that requires a vaccine antidote one could apply for… it’s a nightmare.

As such, it was pretty shocking to find a passage where the authors excitedly discuss using stevia rebaudiana — the same sweet leaf hailed everywhere today as a wonderful, healthy sugar alternative — as an anti-fertility agent. What’s more, it had apparently been used traditionally by indigenous Indian populations in Paraguay for a long time, and rats in studies had shown a large drop in fertility after being administered stevia…’

Sweetener Stevia Was Once Hailed As An Anti-Fertility Agent for Population Reduction
Monday 25th May 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_ubswux58

[palani]

The holy grail of the feminist movement? Stay slim and fornicate without risk?

[Shami-Amourae]

I just avoid all sweeteners. I may occasionally have Grade-B Maple syrup or raw honey, but it's only with foods (like when making BBQ sauce or something.)

I think the best thing to do is to stop liking sweet all together. When you have a sweet fix instead substitute something with fat/salt and force your body to want salt/fat in place of sweet. I've done that successfully for the most part, though I fill the sweet niche with whole fruit. Fruit tastes much sweeter now that I don't consume any artificial sweeteners.

[Neuro]

Truth Frequency Radio (http://truthfrequencyradio.com/false-alarm-about-stevia/)
May 24, 2015

By Luckee
There are many websites today spreading alarm that the powers that be are trying to use Stevia as a surreptitious birth control and depopulation program. I took me all of 30 minutes to find the truth of the matter. Stevia is not a contraceptive. Not for humans. Perhaps for rats, at incredible dosages, but Stevia has only negligible effects.
Here is a reader friendly page about Stevia. Please note: Stevia, being a natural plant (weed) cannot be patented. One can grow it and boil the leaves.
http://www.stevia.net/safety.htm
Now, while it is true there were publications by elitists who sought to use Stevia as a possible tool in the depopulation mission, those publications referred to only ONE study that has not been replicated. That one study was done in 1968. Since many of us have become aware of the dangers of artificial or alternative sweeteners, we should be doing better research and finding the truth in these very important matters.


Aspartame was invented in 1965.
The ‘contraceptive stevia’ study was done in 1968
The book “Population, Resources, Environment: Issues In Human Ecology” was published in 1970

So I submit to you, dear reader, the following:
Aspartame NutraSweet beginnings
From Wikipedia
Aspartame was invented by chemists at G. D. Searle & Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._D._Searle_%26_Company) in 1965.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NutraSweet#cite_note-CompanyProfile-3) Searle was bought by Monsanto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto) in 1985.[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NutraSweet#cite_note-4) In March 2000, Monsanto, which was then a subsidiary of the Pharmacia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacia) corporation, sold NutraSweet to the private equity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity) firm J.W. Childs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.W._Childs).[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NutraSweet#cite_note-CompanyProfile-3)
There is an outstanding article showing the life of Aspartame:
How Aspartame Became
Legal – The Timeline
http://www.rense.com/general33/legal.htm
3 years later, a ‘study’ was done on a natural sweetener called Stevia. Here it is.
Science. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17744732) 1968 Nov 29;162(3857):1007.
Contraceptive Properties of Stevia rebaudiana.
Planas GM (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Planas%20GM%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=17744732), Kucacute J (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Kucacute%20J%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=17744732).
Abstract
A water decoction of the plant Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni reduces fertility in adult female rats of proven fertility. The decoction continues to descrease fertility for at least 50 to 60 days after intake is stopped. The decoction did not affect appetite and apparently did not affect the health of adults rats.
PMID: 17744732 [PubMed] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17744732
Note: This experiment has failed replication and again, it was done on rats. It is also interesting to note that one of the authors of the study had only two of his researches published.
J Ethnopharmacol. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10619379) 1999 Nov 1;67(2):157-61.
Effects of chronic administration of Stevia rebaudiana on fertility in rats.
Melis MS (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Melis%20MS%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=10619379)1. Author information (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10619379)
Abstract
A study conducted on prepubertal male rats showed that chronic administration (60 days) of a Stevia rebaudiana aqueous extract produced a decrease in final weight of testis, seminal vesicle and cauda epididymidis. In addition, the fructose content of the accessory sex glands and the epididymal sperm concentration are decreased. Stevia treatment tended to decrease the plasma testosterone level, probably by a putative affinity of glycosides of extract for a certain androgen receptor, and no alteration occurred in luteinizing hormone level. These data are consistent with the possibility that Stevia extracts may decrease the fertility of male rats.
PMID: 10619379 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10619379

We still have yet to see any effects on humans! Just on rats and the effects are negligible with regular doses. What is showing results is a mass one time dosage that will require an obscene amount of Stevia intake.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17547081) 2006;37 Suppl 3:203-5.
Safety evaluation of aqueous extracts from Aegle marmelos and Stevia rebaudiana on reproduction of female rats.
Saenphet K (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Saenphet%20K%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=17547081)1, Aritajat S (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Aritajat%20S%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=17547081), Saenphet S (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Saenphet%20S%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=17547081), Manosroi J (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Manosroi%20J%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=17547081), Manosroi A (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Manosroi%20A%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=17547081).
Author information (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17547081)
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety of a Thai medicinal plant, Aegle marmelos, and a non-caloric sweetener, Stevia rebaudiana, on the reproduction of female rats. Female rats were treated orally with aqueous extract of A. marmelos (6%) and S. rebaudiana at various concentrations (0, 0.2, 1, or 10%) for 60 days (1 ml/day) before mating. The control rats received only distilled water. At the end of the treatment period, treated females were mated with untreated males and the effects on reproduction were examined at day 14 of pregnancy. No notable abnormalities were observed in any of the pregnant rats. The number of corpus lutea, implanted and dead fetuses, as well as the sizes of the fetuses in the treated rats were not significantly different from those of the controls. Based on these results, it may be concluded that aqueous extracts of A. marmelos and S. rebaudiana at the concentrations used in this study do not alter the reproduction of female rats.
PMID: 17547081 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17547081
Although this is not about sterility it warrants noting for the chromosomes.
Environ Health Perspect. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8143647) 1993 Oct;101 Suppl 3:53-6.
Mutagenicity and human chromosomal effect of stevioside, a sweetener from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni.
Suttajit M (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Suttajit%20M%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=8143647)1, Vinitketkaumnuen U (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Vinitketkaumnuen%20U%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=8143647), Meevatee U (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Meevatee%20U%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=8143647), Buddhasukh D (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Buddhasukh%20D%5BAuthor%5D&cauthor=true&cauthor_uid=8143647).
Author information (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8143647)
Abstract
Leaves of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni have been popularly used as a sweetener in foods and beverages for diabetics and obese people due to their potent sweetener stevioside. In this report, stevioside and steviol were tested for mutagenicity in Salmonella typhimurium strains TA98 and TA100 and for chromosomal effects on cultured human lymphocytes. Stevioside was not mutagenic at concentrations up to 25 mg/plate, but showed direct mutagenicity to only TA98 at 50 mg/plate. However, steviol did not exhibit mutagenicity in either TA98 or TA100, with or without metabolic activation. No significant chromosomal effect of stevioside and steviol was observed in cultured blood lymphocytes from healthy donors (n = 5). This study indicates that stevioside and steviol are neither mutagenic nor clastogenic in vitro at the limited doses; however, in vivo genotoxic tests and long-term effects of stevioside and steviol are yet to be investigated.
PMID: 8143647 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE] PMCID: PMC1521159 Free PMC Article (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1521159/)
So, how about we connect some dots. The book exclaiming the contraceptive value of Stevia:
Population, Resources, Environment: Issues In Human Ecology Hardcover – 1970
by and Anne Ehrlich Ehrlich Paul (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=and+Anne+Ehrlich+Ehrlich+Paul&search-alias=books&text=and+Anne+Ehrlich+Ehrlich+Paul&sort=relevancerank) (Author)
Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Population-Resources-Environment-Issues-Ecology/dp/0716706806?tag=permacultucom-20&linkCode=w13&linkID=&ref_=assoc_res_sw_cr_dka_cra_t0_result_1&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Factivistpost.net%2Fbanners%2Fa mazon.htm
..refers to the supposed legend in Paraguay which has yet to be proven.
A comprehensive list of studies can be found here: (hint: there is no contraceptive effect)
CONTRACEPTIVE EFFECT OF THE STEVIA AND OF ITS SWEETENING PRINCIPLES http://www.cookingwithstevia.com/contraceptive.html
There is no legend about Stevia and contraception
Effects on Reproduction.
An interesting pseudo-phenomenon arose at one time, and, sadly, still receives attention from time to time, in the popular press and even by serious scientists. It is sad because the whole thing is a hoax; if not that, it is at least a case of very badly mistaken identity. It seems that in 1968 a paper appeared that claimed that certain tribes of Indians in Paraguay (the Matto Grosso) used stevia tea as a contraceptive, with apparently very good results27 In subsequent experimental work, utilizing rats, these researchers found that the treatment was supposedly good for periods up to 2 months.
Subsequent work has repeatedly failed to replicate the 1968 study.28-31 Furthermore, at least one attempt to locate tribes in northeastern Paraguay that used stevia to control fertility failed to confirm the story. One effect on reproductive physiology that appears to be valid, but which is in need of further study before definitive conclusions can be drawn, is a healing effect on the processes underlying prostate disease.32 Just how important this finding is must await further research.
http://users.skynet.be/evds/SBC/sbc153.html#stevia
Although I have done the research, and provided copious links, do not believe me! Do your own research! Really. We have to be responsible for our freedoms. While we have the tools, such as the internet, we must use them responsibly.
If the elitists want to cite bad and unproven ‘research’, to attain their ill-gotten goals, let them pursue their folly.

[Neuro]

I have no doubt in my mind that our Zionist overlords are engaged in a depopulation agenda. And stevia may be apart of it, but the science that we have access to doesn't show it. Better be safe than sorry and avoid sweeteners all together. I do believe that non-sugar-based sweeteners messes with the blood sugar, metabolism and insulin levels, and it doesn't matter if it is a natural sweetener or not, basically you fool the brain into believing it is getting a load of sugar and it prepares the body to process it.

That a tribe in South America has used it for centuries is not proof for any birth control effect, people like sweet stuff.