Study Finds Aspartame Causes Cancer

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"FDA urged to review sweetener’s link to cancer
Aspartame, often used in soda, hiked risk of disease in rats, new study says

Updated: 5:25 p.m. PT June 25, 2007
WASHINGTON - A U.S. consumer group called for an urgent Food and Drug Administration review of the safety of aspartame on Monday, but the FDA said there was no immediate need to do so despite a new study showing the sweetener may cause cancer.

Italian researchers published a new study last week that showed aspartame — widely used in soft drinks — might cause leukemia, lymphoma and breast cancer in rats."

The whole thing: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19424599/


That's an update to this story, just a couple of months ago...

"FDA: Sugar substitute doesn't cause cancer
Agency's review of study finds no link between low-cal sweetener, disease"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18236994/



Bribery and deception, I suppose.....:rolleyes:
 
Typical Republican criminality. Just like saying the air around ground-zero was safe to breathe right after 9-11.
 
I want to see numbers. Practically everything contributes in at least a small way to some dire consequence. What I want to do is my own risk analysis. Am I willing to increase my chance of getting cancer by .00000000000001% in order to have a zero-calorie sweetener that tastes pretty good and has a reasonable shelf life?

Some of those other sugar substitutes may be healthier, but they taste terrible. Stevia tastes like pure licorice, which may be okay in some situations but not in my tea.

Life is an endless series of risks. We can't dodge them all and some of them are so minor as to be the province of hypochondriacs. You're something like ten thousand times more likely to be killed in a car wreck on your way to the airport than you are once you board the plane, but we continue to put up with draconian impositions on air travel, while I'll bet neither you nor anyone you know has ever reported the habitual drunk drivers you personally know to the police. And even if you did, there's nothing the police can do until they actually catch one in the act. They don't make them take off their shoes before boarding their vehicles!

Does anyone stop to think that Bin Laden's band of Saudi hijackers ruined hijacking for every other terrorist on earth? If you're sitting on an airliner and a group of wild-eyed crazies stands up and yells, "People, if you do everything we tell you, none of you will be hurt," will you believe them? No you won't, and thirty or forty of you will be brave enough to rush them. A few will of you will be killed in the fight but the hijacking will fail, most of the passengers will survive, and no buildings will ever again be knocked down by Muzzie Fundies.

Yet we still drag ourselves to airports three hours early and allow a bunch of leering civil "servants" to treat us like illegal immigrants. It's irrational risk analysis. We should be putting those resources into securing freighter ports, where only a small percentage of cargo is inspected.

Don't let the government do the same thing to your kitchen. Risk analysis is too complicated and too delicate to be left in the hands of the morons who brought you the War on Drugs.
 
Actually, Fraggle Rocker, the last time that I heard of that the passengers rushed a hijacker, he was the only one who was injured and he barely survived.
 
MetaKron said:
So is the air around a Republican safe to breathe?
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I'd say "barely." As long as they don't open their predominantly christian mouths and spew.

Fraggle Rocker, I agree with you. I'd like to see more studies done, by independent researchers. Not the FDA, and not corporations that benefit from selling aspartame.

I also think Americans are led to blow many things out of proportion by our corporate media. It's so sad how over-worked and ignorant the american population is, in general, and how easily led they are by criminals.

I recently heard that many sodas (like coca-cola and pepsi and many others) contain both sodium benzoate and ascorbic acid (vitamin C), which, when combined, form benzene, a very dangerous substance that leads to leukemia and other forms of cancer. So, is soda now as dangerous as cigarettes in the long run?
 
I think they do know about food, and drugs, they just don't want to let us know they know. They are trying to cover their asses and those of their friends with money in the pharmaceutical and food industries. Another republican-controlled criminal organization nowadays. Just like the EPA. FEMA. Even the Justice Department. Criminals in charge of currently criminal organizations.
 
It's not criminal if there's money in it. Remember the lawyers! They can BUY justice! :rolleyes:
 
Another republican-controlled criminal organization nowadays. Just like the EPA. FEMA. Even the Justice Department. Criminals in charge of currently criminal organizations.
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What gets me is that this feeling seems to be so widespread in America, where's the revolution? Where's the protests? Seems like most people realize what's happening but don't have the will to actually do anything about it.
 
It's inconvenient to get off your asses? Or maybe you just don't know WHAT to do?

I think young people nowdays lack the passion we saw in the 60s....
 
come on now. We have escalades and HDTV to shut us up. Big corps invest a lot to keep us complacent with all these material goodies. They've mastered the art of supressing revolution.
 
I think it's just amazing how well governments and corporations have been able to control the population. It's gotta be the 8th wonder of the world, that you can fuck people over at every opportunity and have them so dazed that they just bend over and wait for the next one.
 
Xelios said:
I think it's just amazing how well governments and corporations have been able to control the population. It's gotta be the 8th wonder of the world, that you can fuck people over at every opportunity and have them so dazed that they just bend over and wait for the next one.
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It's called the "american way of life"...

Or is it "american dream"...?

Or maybe "american justice"!?!?!?!?!?!?!? :runaway: :runaway: :runaway:
 
Abscess said:
come on now. We have escalades and HDTV to shut us up. Big corps invest a lot to keep us complacent with all these material goodies. They've mastered the art of supressing revolution.
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Yes! Let's organize ourselves and show them that they cannot suppress our revolution any longer!!!! I'm working on a new blog RIGHT NOW! Log in tomorrow and I might have it ready already! :bugeye:

Welcome to sciforums, btw... :)
 
We haven't reached that critical point yet. We're headed that way though. Watch out "bushes" and "cheneys" and even "clintons" and "obamas" of the world.
 
I like the way everyone here just automatically assumes that this Italian study is correct and that the FDA is involved in a conspiracy with big corporations to hide the truth, without even considering the possibility that this new study is either wrong or being blown massively out of proportion by its authors in an attempt to get research money or publicity for their institute. What about the giant pile of studies showing that aspartame doesn’t cause cancer? Were those scientists (and the peer-reviewed journals that published them) also “in on it?”

If you think that the FDA is in bed with companies, how do you explain that fact that the FDA keeps making it harder and harder for companies to bring products to market? If you actually take a look at the behavior of the FDA over the last decade or so, you’ll see that the FDA is constantly expanding the number of products that it regulates or bans outright. How does that fit in with your conspiracy theories?

Oh, wait…you did take the time to actually familiarize yourself with the FDA’s recent policies before you assumed that they were in bed with corporations, didn’t you?

Edit: by the way, it's not like aspartame is some sort of mysterious substance. It's two common amino acids (that you get loads of any time you eat any food that has protein in it) and a methyl ester that turns into methanol upon digestion. Since there's no question about the aminoacids being safe, literally the only thing left to argue about is the methanol. A can of diet soda would get you something like 20-30 microliters of methanol. This is trivial, and methanol is found in small amounts in all sorts of foods.
 
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I like the way everyone here just automatically assumes that this Italian study is correct and that the FDA is involved in a conspiracy with big corporations to hide the truth, without even considering the possibility that this new study is either wrong or being blown massively out of proportion by its authors in an attempt to get research money or publicity for their institute. What about the giant pile of studies showing that aspartame doesn’t cause cancer? Were those scientists (and the peer-reviewed journals that published them) also “in on it?”
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I would like to see that pile.

As I shown in the beginning of the thread, independent studies keep saying aspartame is dangerous. And it doesn't take a very logical person to notice that aspartame is not a healthy substance.

If you think that the FDA is in bed with companies, how do you explain that fact that the FDA keeps making it harder and harder for companies to bring products to market?
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Barriers to entry. Those barriers are against new companies. They are making it harder for the new competition, thus protecting their buddies.

If you actually take a look at the behavior of the FDA over the last decade or so, you’ll see that the FDA is constantly expanding the number of products that it regulates or bans outright. How does that fit in with your conspiracy theories?
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Which conspiracy theories? Oh, and btw, when are they going to ban tobacco? It's shown to cause cancer in all studies, and yet they won't ban it. Why?

:rolleyes:

Oh, wait…you did take the time to actually familiarize yourself with the FDA’s recent policies before you assumed that they were in bed with corporations, didn’t you?
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So they don't have absoulte power to seize goods anymore? Nor absolute power to make regulations? It's not a self-regulating agency anymore? :rolleyes:
 
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