Posted on 06/29/2023 6:34:29 AM PDT by dennisw
Is this the beginning of the end for low-calorie food and drink? Artificial sugar replacement aspartame, found in thousands of 'diet' replacements - like Diet Coke, Extra chewing gum and even toothpaste, to be declared 'possibly carcinogenic to humans' Leaked report says WHO cancer group could declare aspartame carcinogenic
An artificial sweetener added to thousands of fizzy drinks, chewing gums and low-calorie foods will be declared a potential cancer risk, a bombshell report claimed today.
Aspartame is set to be listed as 'possibly carcinogenic to humans' in a World Health Organization reclassification, according to insiders. It follows a major safety review into the artificial sugar replacement involving 1,300 studies.
Particular products containing aspartame — which entered the market in the 1980s — include Diet Coke, Dr Pepper and Fanta, as well as Extra chewing gum and Muller Light yoghurts. Some toothpastes, dessert mixes, and sugar-free cough drops also contain it.
The move will send shockwaves through the global food manufacturing market, with some of the world's best-loved brands affected. A huge push to crackdown on sugar over the past few decades has led to the mass usage of artificial sweeteners such as aspartame.
Experts immediately questioned the International Agency for Research on Cancer's (IARC) decision, calling the classification system used by the WHO's subsidiary body 'dumb' and arguing that 'the dose makes the poison'. Cancer Research UK explicitly states that artificial sweeteners such as aspartame don’t cause cancer.
Meanwhile, industry bodies claimed the IARC review consisted of 'widely discredited research' which 'contradicts decades of high-quality evidence'.
Similar WHO-backed cancer warnings slapped on red meat, working overnight and using mobile phones have faced criticism for sparking needless alarm over hard to avoid substances or situations.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well, since we no longer drink Woka Cola...
Meh.
Note to Coke: Should’ve used a longer spoon.
Who paid for the studies?
Pretty sure its prop 65 in calibnoxious already. I know my rake is. Oh and my 8ft ladder too.
NOTE——— This Aspartame declaration is coming from the World Health Organization / of the UN. Pfizer C19 vaxxxes still get their seal of approval.
WHO never met a vaxxxxx it didn’t like
The only antidote is to eat lots of eggs, butter, and well marbled red meat...
The sweetener in diet soda and non-sugar chewing gum is a carcinogen? I’m dead.
These people all follow the “linear no threshold” model, which assumes that any dose, no matter how small, will have some risk. It started with respect to radiation exposure, but has been illegitimately applied to environmental and other compounds that someone with an agenda doesn’t like. The LNT model flies in the face of the time-honored dictum that the dose makes a difference.
Wasn’t saccharine carcinogenic? Cyclamates?
I just don’t believe any of this. I mistrust the medical establishment like WHO and the CDC and the FDA so much that I think that the makers of aspartame are guilty of not ponying up enough cash to satisfy the grifters.
Years ago, I used this in my coffee, tea and even unsweetened cereal. I drank diet drinks - 3 or 4 a day. I started getting ‘lighting headaches’ where I would black out momentarily and then be struck with a blinding headache that was completely debilitating. I ended up getting a brain scan and other tests done but they turned up nothing. My neurologist was on the way out of my final appointment and turned just before he walked out the door and asked if I used artificial sweeteners - I think it was Equal - and I said yes. He suggested I stop and I did right away. The headaches stopped within 24 hrs and never came back.
I will NEVER use any artificial sweeteners. - Europe has banned a majority if not all of them IIRC. Between that and high fructose corn syrup, they are trying to kill us.
...safe and effective...
Trump’s reputedly a heavy user. A dozen Diet Cokes a day.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/health/diet-coke-trump-health-effects/index.html
amen....and get natural sunshine for the vitamin D
REVERSING COURSE, DIET PEPSI GOES ALL-IN ON ASPARTAME
Ad Age ^ | February 16, 2018. | E.J. Schultz
Posted on 2/17/2018, 1:13:07 AM by nickcarraway
PepsiCo—which faced a consumer backlash after it pulled aspartame from Diet Pepsi in 2015—is making a full reversal and will once again use the controversial sweetner in the soda’s mainstream variety.
The brand yanked aspartame in mid-2015, replacing it with with sucralose and acesulfame potassium, known as Ace-K. But the move backfired as loyalists clamored for the original formula. So in 2016, the brand brought back the aspartame version—but only in limited quantities marketed as “classic sweetener blend.” It kept the aspartame-free version as its mainstream variety. But now Diet Pepsi is making the aspartame version its main variety again as part of a marketing revamp.
Beverage Digest first reported the news on Friday. A PepsiCo spokeswoman confirmed the switch to Ad Age but did not comment further. The move sets up a new chapter in the cola wars with Diet Pepsi’s overhaul going head-to-head with Diet Coke, which has also undergone big changes.
Diet Coke this year introduced new flavors, packaging and an aggressive ad campaign that included a Super Bowl ad. Diet Coke has stuck with aspartame all along. And despite criticism of the sweetener by some health activists, the move has paid off. Last year, sales of Diet Pepsi’s aspartame-free version dropped by 8.0% in volume, while Diet Coke fell 2.5%, Beverage Digest reported.
Diet Coke’s revamp includes new flavors such as “feisty cherry,” “zesty blood orange” and “ginger lime,” as it seeks to gain interest from younger drinkers. Diet Pepsi will add vanilla and lime flavors in addition to its existing wild cherry variety, Beverage Digest reported. The new lineup will be marketed as “Classic Diet Pepsi Taste,” and be backed with a TV ad that is part of the larger “Pepsi Generations” campaign that debuted at the Super Bowl, according to Beverage Digest. Diet Pepsi will keep the aspartame-free version but only sell it via e-commerce, according to Beverage Digest.
The move comes amid continued struggles for PepsiCo’s North American Beverage unit, whse revenues fell 3 percent in the fourth quarter. On Tuesday, the same day it reported fourth quarter earnings, the company executed a round of companywide layoffs. PepsiCo stated that the layoffs cover “less than 1% of our U.S. workforce focused on corporate positions” as part of an ongoing “$5 billion productivity program.” A spokeswoman declined comment when asked for the percentage of global layoffs. As of Dec. 30, PepsiCo employed 263,000 people worldwide, including 113,000 people in the U.S., according to financial filings.
Gave up Diet Coke for woke
Trump’s reputedly a heavy user. A dozen Diet Cokes a day.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/11/health/diet-coke-trump-health-effects/index.html
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Yeah, Trump is a world class aspartame consumer. There is no aspartame in what I eat. Not that I know of.
Meh, eat what you like in moderation. Sugar is supposedly the evil bane of all society, yet folks are still living longer than ever on average. We get 70 or so years, and anything more is a bonus- enjoy what you enjoy in moderation and may the chips fall where they may. (Just don’t step on them because they are still good and the 3 second rule applies)
If however something comes out with a solid chance of causing cancer even in small amounts, then yeah, maybe avoid. But “possibly carcinogenic”? We are surrounded by “possibly carcinogenic” things all our lives, and still folks are living longer.
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