Posted on 06/29/2023 8:48:07 PM PDT by bitt
The artificial sweetener aspartame might soon be declared a “possible carcinogen,” or cancer-causing agent, according to a leaked report from the World Health Organization.
Aspartame is used in Diet Coke, Coke Zero, chewing gum, diet Snapple, breakfast cereals, ice cream and many other common food and drinks.
It’s also sold as NutraSweet, Equal and Sugar Twin.
The news about the possible move by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, first reported on Reuters, met with quick resistance from the food industry.
“… [T]his leaked opinion contradicts decades of high-quality scientific evidence,” International Council of Beverages Associations executive director Kate Loatman said in a press release.
The potential health warning “could needlessly mislead consumers into consuming more sugar rather than choosing safe no- and low-sugar options — all on the basis of low-quality studies,” Loatman added.
“Consumers deserve facts, and the fact is aspartame is one of the most widely studied food ingredients and has repeatedly been determined to be safe by global scientific and regulatory authorities,” said Robert Rankin, president of the Calorie Control Council, in a statement.
“IARC is not a regulatory agency, ingredient expert, or food safety authority,” Rankin added, “[and] their sole focus is to find substances that could cause cancer, and they have classified things like aloe vera, low frequency magnetic fields, and pickled vegetables as possibly a causing cancer.”
The Post has also reached out to the Coca-Cola Company for comment.
The possible IARC listing could come as early as July 14 — the same day another group, the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives, is set to announce its findings on aspartame.
Labeling an ingredient as cancer-causing requires years of rigorous testing and research.
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They’ve talked about this for years.
Is it one of those things like Saccharine, that might be cancerous if you ate 10lbs of it every day for 50 years?
The vaccine is way safer though
Years ago, I heard that it causes brain tumors/cancer very quickly from someone who used to work for the manufacturer. Heard the same thing from Ralph Nader shortly after. Nasty stuff.
All I care about is that it gives me wicked headaches.
80% of people would have “brain tumors/cancer” if that were true.
i have a friend who is actually allergic to it.
the semi-anecdotal reports about neurological side effects have been around forever.
i guess after saccharin there was a real need for a sweetener to replace it, and there is a LOT of money in it, so we have had aspertame around for decades.
the object lesson, for me, is that big money and big market means stuff that only does harm over time and without clear attribution likely to be established is going to be allowed.
don’t get me started on pyrothroids.
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There is some sort of a link between Aspartame and the late Donald Rumsfeld.
He may have been in a position of authority to get it approved for human use. Starting in 1977, leading up to about 1981 when he worked for Reagan.
It is a long and involved story for those wanting to check it out.
And they expect us to believe that artificial meat is good for us.
Nope.
Not buying that line either.
These “studies” are asinine. Things like aspartame are carcinogenic only in fantastically consumed amounts. You would have to eat 1lb of the stuff every day for it to possibly give you cancer. In the minuscule amounts that its consumed by the average person it does not cause cancer. Leave it to the Pravda Media to revive clickbait bs “studies”.
Avoid Aspartame and HFCS.
Use cane sugar and pure local honey.
One of my doc friends who’s an oncologist told me years ago to stay away from that shit. He said that it was poison and accelerated cancer growth.
FTA: would have to drink between 12 and 36 cans of diet soda – depending on the amount of aspartame in the beverage – every day to be at risk.
If you drink that much water you would be stressing your kidneys!!
must be why I’m dead...
Why don’t any of the diet soft drinks use sucralose??
I’ve always assumed it was carcinogenic.
Is it time to call for Captain Obvious?
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