Study Links Aspartame to Cancer (in mice)

CBSNews.com ^ | July 28,2005 | Daniel J. DeNoon

[gusopol3]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/28/health/webmd/main712605.shtml

[Will_Zurmacht]

so if i drink around 20 diet cokes a day am i gonna die?

[MJY1288]

I think the foul wind coming from the Democrat side of the Isle causes Cancer and should be eliminated :-)

[clearlight]

Whenever I drink something with Aspartame in it, it causes a sweet, metallic taste in my mouth that can last for hours. No more for me, thank you.

[Paradox]

This is quite interesting, but I do think someone is going to have to do another study. I wouldn't panic because of this, but I'll probably cut back on the diet stuff I drink. I am not an alarmist at all, but if I can do without all that crap anyways, why bother?

[hopperbach]

Meanwhile, I think consumers should switch to Splenda, the sweetener known as sucralose."

Until he finds something wrong with that as well. I'm sick of these ninnies telling me what I'm allowed to comsume. Last time I checked, I didn't have whiskers and a long pointy tail.

I can tell you this much though...eveyone who drinks Aspartame is going to die.

[MinorityRepublican]

Right, 20 diet cokes would be considered excessive. I don't think 1 or 2 would do anything, as long as it is less than 5

[gusopol3]

Why not just hedge and buy stock in Splenda? (maybe why both Coke and Pepsi have brought out Splenda-sweetened products recently?) (they taste terrible, flat)

[garyhope]

More pseudo science baloney. Always check with Snopes first: http://www.snopes.com/toxins/aspartame.asp

[Augie76]

I do drink a fair amount of Diet Mountain Dew . . . hmmmm

[Augie76]

Rush absolutely despises this Michael Jacobson from CSPI. He calls him the food police, etc.

[gusopol3]

are you saying this is a forged but accurate study?

[zerosix]

Actually, the truth about Aspartame, is that it has been found in connection with a certain kind of brain tumor and not by "Science and the Public Interest" liberal lobby but the industry has kept this information from being made public for years but my doctor told me "under no certain circumstances, eat or drink anything at all containing any form of it."

[bd476]

garyhope wrote: More pseudo science baloney. Always check with Snopes first: Snopes

That Snopes report is from two years ago - September 2003.

[xroadie]

"so if i drink around 20 diet cokes a day am i gonna die?"

Yes. Yes you will. Of that much I am certain.

[Graybeard58]

Coke and Pepsi have brought out Splenda-sweetened products recently?) (they taste terrible, flat)

Nasty, nasty stuff.

[xroadie]

RIght, I remember this being one of the first internet e-mail hoaxes, passed by "health=conscious friends and acquaintances. Never did figure who started it, maybe someone with an interest in high sugar prices? (like Congress?)

[gusopol3]

It's true that reports linking brain and breast cancer to aspartame had little merit, says blood-cancer specialist Martin R. Weihrauch, MD, of the University of Cologne, Germany. Last year, Weihrauch reported on his analysis of all published studies on artificial sweeteners in the Annals of Oncology.

"The entire stuff about brain tumors and breast cancer was really nonsense, Weihrauch tells WebMD.

[mad_as_he$$]

Yes!