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Aspartame found to cause breast cancer, leukemia and lymphomas in latest animals experiments
On Jul 22, 11:20 am, Dragon's Girl wrote:
On Jul 15, 10:54 am, lilhornie wrote: On Jul 14, 5:52 am, "JOHN" wrote: "tauzinger" wrote in message roups.com... On Jun 29, 12:31 am, "Jan Drew" wrote: Add aspartame to the FDA's Hall of Shame, right alongsideVioxx, Rezulin and the ordered destruction of recipe books that dared to mention the stevia herb as an ingredient. It's just one more way in which the FDA continues to betray the American people and subject them to life-threatening ingredients that any honest Food and Drug Administration would have banned long ago. Vioxx wouldn't happen any more today. RAOFL!!! They are still managing to suppress the vaccine autism conenction, so how many kids every day get autism from vaccines? That is a few million since mass DPT vaccination in the 40's, by the way. ----------- THANK YOU, GRANULATED SUGAR LOBBY ! ------------- For all these SCARY "reports" on the HORRORS of sugar SUBSTITUTES ! I'm not part of any 'sugar lobby', but I believe I've mentioned in groups on usenet several times that my mother was a user of aspartame and other sugar subs. Even in the late seventies foods containing aspartame carried a cancer warning on the packaging. I vividly recall reading those warnings. Just a few years after she began using these products she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I must take issue with the vividness of your memories. Aspartame did not go on the market until 1981. It never carried a cancer warning on the packaging as there has never been any evidence of it being a carcinogen. It only carried and still only carries this warning "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine" From wikipedia: I"n 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA commissioner. Citing data from a Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI, Hayes approved aspartame for use in dry goods.[6] In 1983 FDA further approved aspartame for use in carbonated beverages, and for use in other beverages, baked goods, and confections in 1993. In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in all foods." In the following twenty one to twenty two years she continued to use sugar substitutes, and at the age of 54 she was diagnosed with Leukemia and died seven months later. I don't know if genetics, aspartame, Chicago smog and pollution, chemically treated water, a ruptured silicone breast implant, or what caused my mother's illnesses and death..but I know I don't live in a smoggy city, I don't drink much processed water, I don't have breast implants, and I don't eat sugar substitutes because I feel it's better to be safe than sorry.- Hide quoted text - Well, its everyone's right and duty to choose what they feel is best for them. However, you must admit that your recollection doesn't exactly match history, regarding Aspartame's approval and "warnings". - Show quoted text - |
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Aspartame found to cause breast cancer, leukemia and lymphomas in latest animals experiments
On Jul 22, 12:26 pm, The One True Zhen Jue
wrote: On Jul 22, 11:20 am, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 15, 10:54 am, lilhornie wrote: On Jul 14, 5:52 am, "JOHN" wrote: "tauzinger" wrote in message roups.com... On Jun 29, 12:31 am, "Jan Drew" wrote: Add aspartame to the FDA's Hall of Shame, right alongsideVioxx, Rezulin and the ordered destruction of recipe books that dared to mention the stevia herb as an ingredient. It's just one more way in which the FDA continues to betray the American people and subject them to life-threatening ingredients that any honest Food and Drug Administration would have banned long ago. Vioxx wouldn't happen any more today. RAOFL!!! They are still managing to suppress the vaccine autism conenction, so how many kids every day get autism from vaccines? That is a few million since mass DPT vaccination in the 40's, by the way. ----------- THANK YOU, GRANULATED SUGAR LOBBY ! ------------- For all these SCARY "reports" on the HORRORS of sugar SUBSTITUTES ! I'm not part of any 'sugar lobby', but I believe I've mentioned in groups on usenet several times that my mother was a user of aspartame and other sugar subs. Even in the late seventies foods containing aspartame carried a cancer warning on the packaging. I vividly recall reading those warnings. Just a few years after she began using these products she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I must take issue with the vividness of your memories. Aspartame did not go on the market until 1981. It never carried a cancer warning on the packaging as there has never been any evidence of it being a carcinogen. It only carried and still only carries this warning "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine" From wikipedia: I"n 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA commissioner. Citing data from a Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI, Hayes approved aspartame for use in dry goods.[6] In 1983 FDA further approved aspartame for use in carbonated beverages, and for use in other beverages, baked goods, and confections in 1993. In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in all foods." In the following twenty one to twenty two years she continued to use sugar substitutes, and at the age of 54 she was diagnosed with Leukemia and died seven months later. I don't know if genetics, aspartame, Chicago smog and pollution, chemically treated water, a ruptured silicone breast implant, or what caused my mother's illnesses and death..but I know I don't live in a smoggy city, I don't drink much processed water, I don't have breast implants, and I don't eat sugar substitutes because I feel it's better to be safe than sorry.- Hide quoted text - Well, its everyone's right and duty to choose what they feel is best for them. However, you must admit that your recollection doesn't exactly match history, regarding Aspartame's approval and "warnings". - Show quoted text - Everyone knows if Wiki says it, then it must be true. Right? |
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Aspartame found to cause breast cancer, leukemia and lymphomas in latest animals experiments
On Jul 22, 10:02 pm, Dragon's Girl wrote:
On Jul 22, 12:26 pm, The One True Zhen Jue wrote: On Jul 22, 11:20 am, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 15, 10:54 am, lilhornie wrote: On Jul 14, 5:52 am, "JOHN" wrote: "tauzinger" wrote in message roups.com... On Jun 29, 12:31 am, "Jan Drew" wrote: Add aspartame to the FDA's Hall of Shame, right alongsideVioxx, Rezulin and the ordered destruction of recipe books that dared to mention the stevia herb as an ingredient. It's just one more way in which the FDA continues to betray the American people and subject them to life-threatening ingredients that any honest Food and Drug Administration would have banned long ago. Vioxx wouldn't happen any more today. RAOFL!!! They are still managing to suppress the vaccine autism conenction, so how many kids every day get autism from vaccines? That is a few million since mass DPT vaccination in the 40's, by the way. ----------- THANK YOU, GRANULATED SUGAR LOBBY ! ------------- For all these SCARY "reports" on the HORRORS of sugar SUBSTITUTES ! I'm not part of any 'sugar lobby', but I believe I've mentioned in groups on usenet several times that my mother was a user of aspartame and other sugar subs. Even in the late seventies foods containing aspartame carried a cancer warning on the packaging. I vividly recall reading those warnings. Just a few years after she began using these products she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I must take issue with the vividness of your memories. Aspartame did not go on the market until 1981. It never carried a cancer warning on the packaging as there has never been any evidence of it being a carcinogen. It only carried and still only carries this warning "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine" From wikipedia: I"n 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA commissioner. Citing data from a Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI, Hayes approved aspartame for use in dry goods.[6] In 1983 FDA further approved aspartame for use in carbonated beverages, and for use in other beverages, baked goods, and confections in 1993. In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in all foods." In the following twenty one to twenty two years she continued to use sugar substitutes, and at the age of 54 she was diagnosed with Leukemia and died seven months later. I don't know if genetics, aspartame, Chicago smog and pollution, chemically treated water, a ruptured silicone breast implant, or what caused my mother's illnesses and death..but I know I don't live in a smoggy city, I don't drink much processed water, I don't have breast implants, and I don't eat sugar substitutes because I feel it's better to be safe than sorry.- Hide quoted text - Well, its everyone's right and duty to choose what they feel is best for them. However, you must admit that your recollection doesn't exactly match history, regarding Aspartame's approval and "warnings". - Show quoted text - Everyone knows if Wiki says it, then it must be true. Right? From Wiki: There have been worries about the safety of saccharin since its introduction[citation needed]. Saccharin was the first artificial sweetener and was originally synthesized in 1879 by Remsen and Fahlberg and its sweet taste was discovered by accident. It had been created in an experiment with toluene derivatives. A process for the creation of saccharin from phthalic anhydride was developed in 1950 and currently saccharin is created by this process and the original process by which it was discovered. It is 300-500 times as sweet as sugar (sucrose) and is often used to improve the taste of toothpastes, dietary foods, and dietary beverages. The bitter aftertaste of saccharin is often minimized by blending it with other sweeteners. Fear about saccharin increased when a 1960 study showed that high levels of saccharin may cause bladder cancer in laboratory rats. In 1977, Canada banned saccharin due to results from animal research. The FDA in the United States considered banning saccharin in 1977, but Congress stepped in and placed a moratorium on such a ban. The moratorium required a warning label and also mandated further study of saccharin safety. Subsequently, it was discovered that saccharin causes cancer in male rats by a mechanism not found in humans. At high doses, saccharin causes a precipitate to form in rat urine. This precipitate damages the cells lining the bladder ("urinary bladder urothelial cytotoxicity") and a tumor forms when the cells regenerate ("regenerative hyperplasia"). According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, "Saccharin and its salts was downgraded from Group 2B, possibly carcinogenic to humans, to Group 3, not classifiable as to carcinogenicity to humans, despite sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity to animals, because it is carcinogenic by a non-DNA- reactive mechanism that is not relevant to humans because of critical interspecies differences in urine composition." In 2001, the United States repealed the warning label requirement (the threat of an FDA ban had already been lifted in 1991). Most other countries also permit saccharin but restrict the levels of use, while other countries have outright banned it. (I do recall, VERY VIVIDLY, reading the warning labels on the frozen diet foods that my mother bought. I will certain admit that I was/may have been mistaken about the NAME of the specific sugar substitute, but the warning labels were there...) From the Federal Consumer Information Center web site: FDA began reviewing hundreds of GRAS substances--including saccharin-- in the early 1970s to ensure that the latest scientific information continued to back up their safety. Studies in 1972 and 1973 of rats fed saccharin raised concerns about the sweetener's role in causing bladder cancer, but data analysis later suggested that impurities, not saccharin, may have caused the tumors. Then in 1977, a Canadian study that looked specifically at the role of impurities--and of other suspected tumor causes, such as parasites in test animals--showed convincingly that saccharin itself was causing bladder cancer in rats. That same year, FDA proposed to ban saccharin for all uses except as an over-the-counter drug in the form of a tabletop sweetener. At the time, saccharin was the only available alternative to sugar. The FDA proposal prompted a public outcry, fueled in part by media reports that the test rats were fed the equivalent of as many as 800 diet sodas a day. Congress responded by passing the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act, which placed a two-year moratorium on any ban of the sweetener while additional safety studies were conducted. The law also required that any foods containing saccharin must carry a label that reads "Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. This product contains saccharin which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals." Congress has extended the moratorium several times, most recently renewing it until 2002. And so...the labels that I read (and you are correct) were not in regard to Aspartame, but to Saccharine. Thanks for pointing it out. |
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Aspartame found to cause breast cancer, leukemia and lymphomas in latest animals experiments
On Jul 22, 11:02 pm, Dragon's Girl wrote:
On Jul 22, 12:26 pm, The One True Zhen Jue wrote: On Jul 22, 11:20 am, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 15, 10:54 am, lilhornie wrote: On Jul 14, 5:52 am, "JOHN" wrote: "tauzinger" wrote in message roups.com... On Jun 29, 12:31 am, "Jan Drew" wrote: Add aspartame to the FDA's Hall of Shame, right alongsideVioxx, Rezulin and the ordered destruction of recipe books that dared to mention the stevia herb as an ingredient. It's just one more way in which the FDA continues to betray the American people and subject them to life-threatening ingredients that any honest Food and Drug Administration would have banned long ago. Vioxx wouldn't happen any more today. RAOFL!!! They are still managing to suppress the vaccine autism conenction, so how many kids every day get autism from vaccines? That is a few million since mass DPT vaccination in the 40's, by the way. ----------- THANK YOU, GRANULATED SUGAR LOBBY ! ------------- For all these SCARY "reports" on the HORRORS of sugar SUBSTITUTES ! I'm not part of any 'sugar lobby', but I believe I've mentioned in groups on usenet several times that my mother was a user of aspartame and other sugar subs. Even in the late seventies foods containing aspartame carried a cancer warning on the packaging. I vividly recall reading those warnings. Just a few years after she began using these products she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I must take issue with the vividness of your memories. Aspartame did not go on the market until 1981. It never carried a cancer warning on the packaging as there has never been any evidence of it being a carcinogen. It only carried and still only carries this warning "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine" From wikipedia: I"n 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA commissioner. Citing data from a Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI, Hayes approved aspartame for use in dry goods.[6] In 1983 FDA further approved aspartame for use in carbonated beverages, and for use in other beverages, baked goods, and confections in 1993. In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in all foods." In the following twenty one to twenty two years she continued to use sugar substitutes, and at the age of 54 she was diagnosed with Leukemia and died seven months later. I don't know if genetics, aspartame, Chicago smog and pollution, chemically treated water, a ruptured silicone breast implant, or what caused my mother's illnesses and death..but I know I don't live in a smoggy city, I don't drink much processed water, I don't have breast implants, and I don't eat sugar substitutes because I feel it's better to be safe than sorry.- Hide quoted text - Well, its everyone's right and duty to choose what they feel is best for them. However, you must admit that your recollection doesn't exactly match history, regarding Aspartame's approval and "warnings". - Show quoted text - Everyone knows if Wiki says it, then it must be true. Right?- Hide quoted text - Not necessarily, but they do have a bibliography which cites ALL the original sources. Not to put too fine a point on it, but there never were cancer warnings on Aspartame and it wasn't marketed until the end of 1981. It wasn't in beverages in 1983. There is no good reason to suspect it is carcinogenic. It is only a risk to Phenylketonurics because it contains Phenylalanine. Its a red herring, just like Thimerisol in vaccines. Its not a problem. There are far more important things to be concerned about. - Show quoted text - |
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Aspartame found to cause breast cancer, leukemia and lymphomas in latest animals experiments
On Jul 22, 11:11 pm, Dragon's Girl wrote:
On Jul 22, 10:02 pm, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 22, 12:26 pm, The One True Zhen Jue wrote: On Jul 22, 11:20 am, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 15, 10:54 am, lilhornie wrote: On Jul 14, 5:52 am, "JOHN" wrote: "tauzinger" wrote in message roups.com... On Jun 29, 12:31 am, "Jan Drew" wrote: Add aspartame to the FDA's Hall of Shame, right alongsideVioxx, Rezulin and the ordered destruction of recipe books that dared to mention the stevia herb as an ingredient. It's just one more way in which the FDA continues to betray the American people and subject them to life-threatening ingredients that any honest Food and Drug Administration would have banned long ago. Vioxx wouldn't happen any more today. RAOFL!!! They are still managing to suppress the vaccine autism conenction, so how many kids every day get autism from vaccines? That is a few million since mass DPT vaccination in the 40's, by the way. ----------- THANK YOU, GRANULATED SUGAR LOBBY ! ------------- For all these SCARY "reports" on the HORRORS of sugar SUBSTITUTES ! I'm not part of any 'sugar lobby', but I believe I've mentioned in groups on usenet several times that my mother was a user of aspartame and other sugar subs. Even in the late seventies foods containing aspartame carried a cancer warning on the packaging. I vividly recall reading those warnings. Just a few years after she began using these products she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I must take issue with the vividness of your memories. Aspartame did not go on the market until 1981. It never carried a cancer warning on the packaging as there has never been any evidence of it being a carcinogen. It only carried and still only carries this warning "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine" From wikipedia: I"n 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA commissioner. Citing data from a Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI, Hayes approved aspartame for use in dry goods.[6] In 1983 FDA further approved aspartame for use in carbonated beverages, and for use in other beverages, baked goods, and confections in 1993. In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in all foods." In the following twenty one to twenty two years she continued to use sugar substitutes, and at the age of 54 she was diagnosed with Leukemia and died seven months later. I don't know if genetics, aspartame, Chicago smog and pollution, chemically treated water, a ruptured silicone breast implant, or what caused my mother's illnesses and death..but I know I don't live in a smoggy city, I don't drink much processed water, I don't have breast implants, and I don't eat sugar substitutes because I feel it's better to be safe than sorry.- Hide quoted text - Well, its everyone's right and duty to choose what they feel is best for them. However, you must admit that your recollection doesn't exactly match history, regarding Aspartame's approval and "warnings". - Show quoted text - Everyone knows if Wiki says it, then it must be true. Right? From Wiki: There have been worries about the safety of saccharin since its introduction[citation needed]. Saccharin was the first artificial sweetener and was originally synthesized in 1879 by Remsen and Fahlberg and its sweet taste was discovered by accident. It had been created in an experiment with toluene derivatives. A process for the creation of saccharin from phthalic anhydride was developed in 1950 and currently saccharin is created by this process and the original process by which it was discovered. It is 300-500 times as sweet as sugar (sucrose) and is often used to improve the taste of toothpastes, dietary foods, and dietary beverages. The bitter aftertaste of saccharin is often minimized by blending it with other sweeteners. Fear about saccharin increased when a 1960 study showed that high levels of saccharin may cause bladder cancer in laboratory rats. In 1977, Canada banned saccharin due to results from animal research. The FDA in the United States considered banning saccharin in 1977, but Congress stepped in and placed a moratorium on such a ban. The moratorium required a warning label and also mandated further study of saccharin safety. Subsequently, it was discovered that saccharin causes cancer in male rats by a mechanism not found in humans. At high doses, saccharin causes a precipitate to form in rat urine. This precipitate damages the cells lining the bladder ("urinary bladder urothelial cytotoxicity") and a tumor forms when the cells regenerate ("regenerative hyperplasia"). According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, "Saccharin and its salts was downgraded from Group 2B, possibly carcinogenic to humans, to Group 3, not classifiable as to carcinogenicity to humans, despite sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity to animals, because it is carcinogenic by a non-DNA- reactive mechanism that is not relevant to humans because of critical interspecies differences in urine composition." In 2001, the United States repealed the warning label requirement (the threat of an FDA ban had already been lifted in 1991). Most other countries also permit saccharin but restrict the levels of use, while other countries have outright banned it. (I do recall, VERY VIVIDLY, reading the warning labels on the frozen diet foods that my mother bought. I will certain admit that I was/may have been mistaken about the NAME of the specific sugar substitute, but the warning labels were there...) From the Federal Consumer Information Center web site: FDA began reviewing hundreds of GRAS substances--including saccharin-- in the early 1970s to ensure that the latest scientific information continued to back up their safety. Studies in 1972 and 1973 of rats fed saccharin raised concerns about the sweetener's role in causing bladder cancer, but data analysis later suggested that impurities, not saccharin, may have caused the tumors. Then in 1977, a Canadian study that looked specifically at the role of impurities--and of other suspected tumor causes, such as parasites in test animals--showed convincingly that saccharin itself was causing bladder cancer in rats. That same year, FDA proposed to ban saccharin for all uses except as an over-the-counter drug in the form of a tabletop sweetener. At the time, saccharin was the only available alternative to sugar. The FDA proposal prompted a public outcry, fueled in part by media reports that the test rats were fed the equivalent of as many as 800 diet sodas a day. Congress responded by passing the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act, which placed a two-year moratorium on any ban of the sweetener while additional safety studies were conducted. The law also required that any foods containing saccharin must carry a label that reads "Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. This product contains saccharin which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals." Congress has extended the moratorium several times, most recently renewing it until 2002. And so...the labels that I read (and you are correct) were not in regard to Aspartame, but to Saccharine. Thanks for pointing it out.- Hide quoted text - No problemo! Saccharine is the original artificial sweetner and the source of many urban legends about Aspartame & Splenda. - Show quoted text - |
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Aspartame found to cause breast cancer, leukemia and lymphomas in latest animals experiments
On Jul 22, 8:11 pm, Dragon's Girl wrote:
On Jul 22, 10:02 pm, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 22, 12:26 pm, The One True Zhen Jue wrote: On Jul 22, 11:20 am, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 15, 10:54 am, lilhornie wrote: On Jul 14, 5:52 am, "JOHN" wrote: "tauzinger" wrote in message roups.com... On Jun 29, 12:31 am, "Jan Drew" wrote: Add aspartame to the FDA's Hall of Shame, right alongsideVioxx, Rezulin and the ordered destruction of recipe books that dared to mention the stevia herb as an ingredient. It's just one more way in which the FDA continues to betray the American people and subject them to life-threatening ingredients that any honest Food and Drug Administration would have banned long ago. Vioxx wouldn't happen any more today. RAOFL!!! They are still managing to suppress the vaccine autism conenction, so how many kids every day get autism from vaccines? That is a few million since mass DPT vaccination in the 40's, by the way. ----------- THANK YOU, GRANULATED SUGAR LOBBY ! ------------- For all these SCARY "reports" on the HORRORS of sugar SUBSTITUTES ! I'm not part of any 'sugar lobby', but I believe I've mentioned in groups on usenet several times that my mother was a user of aspartame and other sugar subs. Even in the late seventies foods containing aspartame carried a cancer warning on the packaging. I vividly recall reading those warnings. Just a few years after she began using these products she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I must take issue with the vividness of your memories. Aspartame did not go on the market until 1981. It never carried a cancer warning on the packaging as there has never been any evidence of it being a carcinogen. It only carried and still only carries this warning "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine" From wikipedia: I"n 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA commissioner. Citing data from a Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI, Hayes approved aspartame for use in dry goods.[6] In 1983 FDA further approved aspartame for use in carbonated beverages, and for use in other beverages, baked goods, and confections in 1993. In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in all foods." In the following twenty one to twenty two years she continued to use sugar substitutes, and at the age of 54 she was diagnosed with Leukemia and died seven months later. I don't know if genetics, aspartame, Chicago smog and pollution, chemically treated water, a ruptured silicone breast implant, or what caused my mother's illnesses and death..but I know I don't live in a smoggy city, I don't drink much processed water, I don't have breast implants, and I don't eat sugar substitutes because I feel it's better to be safe than sorry.- Hide quoted text - Well, its everyone's right and duty to choose what they feel is best for them. However, you must admit that your recollection doesn't exactly match history, regarding Aspartame's approval and "warnings". - Show quoted text - Everyone knows if Wiki says it, then it must be true. Right? From Wiki: There have been worries about the safety of saccharin since its introduction[citation needed]. Saccharin was the first artificial sweetener and was originally synthesized in 1879 by Remsen and Fahlberg and its sweet taste was discovered by accident. It had been created in an experiment with toluene derivatives. A process for the creation of saccharin from phthalic anhydride was developed in 1950 and currently saccharin is created by this process and the original process by which it was discovered. It is 300-500 times as sweet as sugar (sucrose) and is often used to improve the taste of toothpastes, dietary foods, and dietary beverages. The bitter aftertaste of saccharin is often minimized by blending it with other sweeteners. Fear about saccharin increased when a 1960 study showed that high levels of saccharin may cause bladder cancer in laboratory rats. In 1977, Canada banned saccharin due to results from animal research. The FDA in the United States considered banning saccharin in 1977, but Congress stepped in and placed a moratorium on such a ban. The moratorium required a warning label and also mandated further study of saccharin safety. Subsequently, it was discovered that saccharin causes cancer in male rats by a mechanism not found in humans. At high doses, saccharin causes a precipitate to form in rat urine. This precipitate damages the cells lining the bladder ("urinary bladder urothelial cytotoxicity") and a tumor forms when the cells regenerate ("regenerative hyperplasia"). According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, "Saccharin and its salts was downgraded from Group 2B, possibly carcinogenic to humans, to Group 3, not classifiable as to carcinogenicity to humans, despite sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity to animals, because it is carcinogenic by a non-DNA- reactive mechanism that is not relevant to humans because of critical interspecies differences in urine composition." In 2001, the United States repealed the warning label requirement (the threat of an FDA ban had already been lifted in 1991). Most other countries also permit saccharin but restrict the levels of use, while other countries have outright banned it. (I do recall, VERY VIVIDLY, reading the warning labels on the frozen diet foods that my mother bought. I will certain admit that I was/may have been mistaken about the NAME of the specific sugar substitute, but the warning labels were there...) From the Federal Consumer Information Center web site: FDA began reviewing hundreds of GRAS substances--including saccharin-- in the early 1970s to ensure that the latest scientific information continued to back up their safety. Studies in 1972 and 1973 of rats fed saccharin raised concerns about the sweetener's role in causing bladder cancer, but data analysis later suggested that impurities, not saccharin, may have caused the tumors. Then in 1977, a Canadian study that looked specifically at the role of impurities--and of other suspected tumor causes, such as parasites in test animals--showed convincingly that saccharin itself was causing bladder cancer in rats. That same year, FDA proposed to ban saccharin for all uses except as an over-the-counter drug in the form of a tabletop sweetener. At the time, saccharin was the only available alternative to sugar. The FDA proposal prompted a public outcry, fueled in part by media reports that the test rats were fed the equivalent of as many as 800 diet sodas a day. Congress responded by passing the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act, which placed a two-year moratorium on any ban of the sweetener while additional safety studies were conducted. The law also required that any foods containing saccharin must carry a label that reads "Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. This product contains saccharin which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals." Congress has extended the moratorium several times, most recently renewing it until 2002. And so...the labels that I read (and you are correct) were not in regard to Aspartame, but to Saccharine. Thanks for pointing it out.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Interestingly, I had an uncle, who died of bladder cancer in 1961. He was a very heavy saccharin user. My aunt cooked and baked with it even. I didn't know that bladder cancer, and saccharin were linked. Myrl http://www.webstarmagic.com/wisletter.htm |
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Aspartame found to cause breast cancer, leukemia and lymphomas in latest animals experiments
On Jul 23, 8:37 am, Myrl wrote:
On Jul 22, 8:11 pm, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 22, 10:02 pm, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 22, 12:26 pm, The One True Zhen Jue wrote: On Jul 22, 11:20 am, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 15, 10:54 am, lilhornie wrote: On Jul 14, 5:52 am, "JOHN" wrote: "tauzinger" wrote in message roups.com... On Jun 29, 12:31 am, "Jan Drew" wrote: Add aspartame to the FDA's Hall of Shame, right alongsideVioxx, Rezulin and the ordered destruction of recipe books that dared to mention the stevia herb as an ingredient. It's just one more way in which the FDA continues to betray the American people and subject them to life-threatening ingredients that any honest Food and Drug Administration would have banned long ago. Vioxx wouldn't happen any more today. RAOFL!!! They are still managing to suppress the vaccine autism conenction, so how many kids every day get autism from vaccines? That is a few million since mass DPT vaccination in the 40's, by the way. ----------- THANK YOU, GRANULATED SUGAR LOBBY ! ------------- For all these SCARY "reports" on the HORRORS of sugar SUBSTITUTES ! I'm not part of any 'sugar lobby', but I believe I've mentioned in groups on usenet several times that my mother was a user of aspartame and other sugar subs. Even in the late seventies foods containing aspartame carried a cancer warning on the packaging. I vividly recall reading those warnings. Just a few years after she began using these products she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I must take issue with the vividness of your memories. Aspartame did not go on the market until 1981. It never carried a cancer warning on the packaging as there has never been any evidence of it being a carcinogen. It only carried and still only carries this warning "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine" From wikipedia: I"n 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA commissioner. Citing data from a Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI, Hayes approved aspartame for use in dry goods.[6] In 1983 FDA further approved aspartame for use in carbonated beverages, and for use in other beverages, baked goods, and confections in 1993. In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in all foods." In the following twenty one to twenty two years she continued to use sugar substitutes, and at the age of 54 she was diagnosed with Leukemia and died seven months later. I don't know if genetics, aspartame, Chicago smog and pollution, chemically treated water, a ruptured silicone breast implant, or what caused my mother's illnesses and death..but I know I don't live in a smoggy city, I don't drink much processed water, I don't have breast implants, and I don't eat sugar substitutes because I feel it's better to be safe than sorry.- Hide quoted text - Well, its everyone's right and duty to choose what they feel is best for them. However, you must admit that your recollection doesn't exactly match history, regarding Aspartame's approval and "warnings". - Show quoted text - Everyone knows if Wiki says it, then it must be true. Right? From Wiki: There have been worries about the safety of saccharin since its introduction[citation needed]. Saccharin was the first artificial sweetener and was originally synthesized in 1879 by Remsen and Fahlberg and its sweet taste was discovered by accident. It had been created in an experiment with toluene derivatives. A process for the creation of saccharin from phthalic anhydride was developed in 1950 and currently saccharin is created by this process and the original process by which it was discovered. It is 300-500 times as sweet as sugar (sucrose) and is often used to improve the taste of toothpastes, dietary foods, and dietary beverages. The bitter aftertaste of saccharin is often minimized by blending it with other sweeteners. Fear about saccharin increased when a 1960 study showed that high levels of saccharin may cause bladder cancer in laboratory rats. In 1977, Canada banned saccharin due to results from animal research. The FDA in the United States considered banning saccharin in 1977, but Congress stepped in and placed a moratorium on such a ban. The moratorium required a warning label and also mandated further study of saccharin safety. Subsequently, it was discovered that saccharin causes cancer in male rats by a mechanism not found in humans. At high doses, saccharin causes a precipitate to form in rat urine. This precipitate damages the cells lining the bladder ("urinary bladder urothelial cytotoxicity") and a tumor forms when the cells regenerate ("regenerative hyperplasia"). According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, "Saccharin and its salts was downgraded from Group 2B, possibly carcinogenic to humans, to Group 3, not classifiable as to carcinogenicity to humans, despite sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity to animals, because it is carcinogenic by a non-DNA- reactive mechanism that is not relevant to humans because of critical interspecies differences in urine composition." In 2001, the United States repealed the warning label requirement (the threat of an FDA ban had already been lifted in 1991). Most other countries also permit saccharin but restrict the levels of use, while other countries have outright banned it. (I do recall, VERY VIVIDLY, reading the warning labels on the frozen diet foods that my mother bought. I will certain admit that I was/may have been mistaken about the NAME of the specific sugar substitute, but the warning labels were there...) From the Federal Consumer Information Center web site: FDA began reviewing hundreds of GRAS substances--including saccharin-- in the early 1970s to ensure that the latest scientific information continued to back up their safety. Studies in 1972 and 1973 of rats fed saccharin raised concerns about the sweetener's role in causing bladder cancer, but data analysis later suggested that impurities, not saccharin, may have caused the tumors. Then in 1977, a Canadian study that looked specifically at the role of impurities--and of other suspected tumor causes, such as parasites in test animals--showed convincingly that saccharin itself was causing bladder cancer in rats. That same year, FDA proposed to ban saccharin for all uses except as an over-the-counter drug in the form of a tabletop sweetener. At the time, saccharin was the only available alternative to sugar. The FDA proposal prompted a public outcry, fueled in part by media reports that the test rats were fed the equivalent of as many as 800 diet sodas a day. Congress responded by passing the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act, which placed a two-year moratorium on any ban of the sweetener while additional safety studies were conducted. The law also required that any foods containing saccharin must carry a label that reads "Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. This product contains saccharin which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals." Congress has extended the moratorium several times, most recently renewing it until 2002. And so...the labels that I read (and you are correct) were not in regard to Aspartame, but to Saccharine. Thanks for pointing it out.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Interestingly, I had an uncle, who died of bladder cancer in 1961. He was a very heavy saccharin user. My aunt cooked and baked with it even. I didn't know that bladder cancer, and saccharin were linked. I had a relative with a very similar story. His oncologist thought that it was the 3 packs of cigarettes, smoked meats, and alcohol consumption. Someone else thought it was saccharin. Myrlhttp://www.webstarmagic.com/wisletter.htm- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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On Jul 23, 5:49 am, The One True Zhen Jue
wrote: I had a relative with a very similar story. His oncologist thought that it was the 3 packs of cigarettes, smoked meats, and alcohol consumption. Someone else thought it was saccharin. There's little absolute truth in life - only endless possibilities, and probabilities! Luckily for industry, they can hide behind their collective skirts of potential and possible causes! Myrl http;//www.webstarmagic.com/wisletter.htm |
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On Jul 23, 8:42 am, Myrl wrote:
On Jul 23, 5:49 am, The One True Zhen Jue wrote: I had a relative with a very similar story. His oncologist thought that it was the 3 packs of cigarettes, smoked meats, and alcohol consumption. Someone else thought it was saccharin. There's little absolute truth in life - only endless possibilities, and probabilities! Luckily for industry, they can hide behind their collective skirts of potential and possible causes! Myrl http;//www.webstarmagic.com/wisletter.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That brought up a memory of a conversation I had with my Chiropractor years ago. I asked him if a firmer mattress was better than a softer mattress and he said, "I hesitate to make a recommendation, for tomorrow someone may come up with a finding that it causes cancer." |
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Aspartame found to cause breast cancer, leukemia and lymphomas in latest animals experiments
"The One True Zhen Jue" wrote in message ups.com... On Jul 22, 11:02 pm, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 22, 12:26 pm, The One True Zhen Jue wrote: On Jul 22, 11:20 am, Dragon's Girl wrote: On Jul 15, 10:54 am, lilhornie wrote: On Jul 14, 5:52 am, "JOHN" wrote: "tauzinger" wrote in message roups.com... On Jun 29, 12:31 am, "Jan Drew" wrote: Add aspartame to the FDA's Hall of Shame, right alongsideVioxx, Rezulin and the ordered destruction of recipe books that dared to mention the stevia herb as an ingredient. It's just one more way in which the FDA continues to betray the American people and subject them to life-threatening ingredients that any honest Food and Drug Administration would have banned long ago. Vioxx wouldn't happen any more today. RAOFL!!! They are still managing to suppress the vaccine autism conenction, so how many kids every day get autism from vaccines? That is a few million since mass DPT vaccination in the 40's, by the way. ----------- THANK YOU, GRANULATED SUGAR LOBBY ! ------------- For all these SCARY "reports" on the HORRORS of sugar SUBSTITUTES ! I'm not part of any 'sugar lobby', but I believe I've mentioned in groups on usenet several times that my mother was a user of aspartame and other sugar subs. Even in the late seventies foods containing aspartame carried a cancer warning on the packaging. I vividly recall reading those warnings. Just a few years after she began using these products she was diagnosed with breast cancer. I must take issue with the vividness of your memories. Aspartame did not go on the market until 1981. It never carried a cancer warning on the packaging as there has never been any evidence of it being a carcinogen. It only carried and still only carries this warning "Phenylketonurics: Contains Phenylalanine" From wikipedia: I"n 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA commissioner. Citing data from a Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI, Hayes approved aspartame for use in dry goods.[6] In 1983 FDA further approved aspartame for use in carbonated beverages, and for use in other beverages, baked goods, and confections in 1993. In 1996, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in all foods." In the following twenty one to twenty two years she continued to use sugar substitutes, and at the age of 54 she was diagnosed with Leukemia and died seven months later. I don't know if genetics, aspartame, Chicago smog and pollution, chemically treated water, a ruptured silicone breast implant, or what caused my mother's illnesses and death..but I know I don't live in a smoggy city, I don't drink much processed water, I don't have breast implants, and I don't eat sugar substitutes because I feel it's better to be safe than sorry.- Hide quoted text - Well, its everyone's right and duty to choose what they feel is best for them. However, you must admit that your recollection doesn't exactly match history, regarding Aspartame's approval and "warnings". - Show quoted text - Everyone knows if Wiki says it, then it must be true. Right?- Hide quoted text - Not necessarily, but they do have a bibliography which cites ALL the original sources. Not to put too fine a point on it, but there never were cancer warnings on Aspartame and it wasn't marketed until the end of 1981. It wasn't in beverages in 1983. There is no good reason to suspect it is carcinogenic. It is only a risk to Phenylketonurics because it contains Phenylalanine. Its a red herring, just like Thimerisol in vaccines. Its not a problem. There are far more important things to be concerned about. - Show quoted text - I'm not a proponent or fan of aspartame or any of the substitute sweeteners in discussion. BUT The health and welfare of the western world would be greatly enhanced if basic sugar was eliminated from the market. Aiming at the other artificials is a canard. Excess sugar causes or exacerbates ALL of the above maladies. (Every one of them plus dozens more) I use two sweeteners, honey (local bees) and Stevin. Of course I get sugar from a thousand sources in purchased foods that one would expect not to need or have sweeteners. |
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