Is it true that artificial sweeteners in soft drinks are carcinagenic?!
Question: Aspartame and its offshoots turn to wood alcohol at body temps, thats basically formaldehyde bro, theres no need for that stuff in anyones body. Not while theyre alive anyhoo......aspartame was originally invented as a sweet tasting ant poison, thats why they figure small amounts wont hurt humans. Hah!!!
Answers: Aspartame and its offshoots turn to wood alcohol at body temps, thats basically formaldehyde bro, theres no need for that stuff in anyones body. Not while theyre alive anyhoo......aspartame was originally invented as a sweet tasting ant poison, thats why they figure small amounts wont hurt humans. Hah!!!
Yea splenda increased the risk of cancer in lab rats.
For rats yes.Only sacharine.
yes
Sure is.
Well, no, not really now.
The chemicals used in the early sweeteners were shown to cause cancer in lab mice at HIGH dosages over long periods of time.
The newer sweeteners have not shown the same results.
a certain kind of diet sodas I heard is bad for you.
Study Links Aspartame To Cancer
Lymphoma, Leukemia In Rats Fed Sweetener; Some Dispute Results
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(WebMD) A study of rats links low doses of aspartame -- the sweetener in NutraSweet, Equal, and thousands of consumer products -- to leukemia and lymphoma.
But food industry officials point out that many other studies have found no link between aspartame and cancer.
The rats in the study were fed various doses of aspartame throughout their lives. In female but not male rats, lymphoma and leukemia were significantly associated with daily aspartame doses as low as 20 milligrams (mg) per kilogram (kg) of body weight. And there was a trend toward these cancers at doses as low as 4 mg/kg of body weight.
To reach a dose of 20 mg/kg, a 140-pound woman would need to drink three cans of diet soda a day. A 180-pound man would need to drink four cans of diet soda a day.
And diet soda isn't the only source of aspartame. The sweetener is in thousands of products, ranging from yogurt to over-the-counter medicines.
The average person consumes about 2 or 3 mg/kg aspartame each day. However, that figure goes way up for children and young women.
The study comes from an independent research team led by Morando Soffritti, MD, scientific director of the European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences in Bologna, Italy.
"What I am recommending is for healthy children and women -- if they do not have diabetes -- to avoid consumer use of aspartame," Soffritti tells WebMD. "We cannot continue to use aspartame in 6,000 types of products, soft drinks, yogurt, and whatever."
Consumer Group Reacts
A consumer watchdog group, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, has called for FDA action. At a minimum, the FDA should start its own studies and warn consumers of the potential danger, says CSPI Executive Director Michael F. Jacobson, PhD.
"The U.S. government really should analyze this study very carefully. If it is accepted as top quality, it could lead to a ban on aspartame," Jacobson tells WebMD. "I think a lot of companies are going to see the writing on the wall from this study and switch to newer artificial sweeteners. Meanwhile, I think consumers should switch to Splenda, the sweetener known as sucralose."
But Jacobson urges consumers not to panic.
"The risk to an individual is quite small," he says. "So people shouldn't fear that if they have one diet soda a day they are going to develop cancer. And I must say, the one qualm I have about the study is they found an increased risk of cancer at such a low level of exposure. If aspartame were that potent a carcinogen, I wonder if we wouldn't be seeing a real epidemic of cancer."
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By Daniel J. DeNoon
Reviewed by Michael W. Smith, MD
? 2005, WebMD Inc. All rights reserved.
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no not all of them. some use honey, and that's natural. Coke is going back to just sugar and not corn syrup. YOu can find it at cosco this month. They also have a coke zero and a diet coke plus. all new to me this month.
its phthalates in the plastic bottle , if left in sunlight , that forms formaldehyde , a known carcinogen .
In perspective, a lot of other things cause cancer even more easliy
Saccharine was proved NOT to be carcinogenic but was an evil & greedy plot by Nutrasweet so their product would be included in all Diet products.
Aspartame can cause digestive problems & hyperactivity.