Posted on 07/02/2023 9:09:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Aspartame, one of the most common artificial sweeteners — found in everything from diet sodas to cough drops to other pharmaceuticals — may soon be marked as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) by the world’s preeminent public health body.
Via Reuters:
One of the world’s most common artificial sweeteners is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, according to two sources with knowledge of the process, pitting it against the food industry and regulators.
Aspartame, used in products from Coca-Cola diet sodas to Mars’ Extra chewing gum and some Snapple drinks, will be listed in July as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” for the first time by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research arm, the sources told Reuters.
Exclusive: Aspartame, one of the world's most common artificial sweeteners, is set to be declared a possible carcinogen next month by a leading global health body, pitting it against the food industry and regulators.
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Far be it for me to blindly endorse any decrees issued by the itself-cancerous World Health Organization given its highly suspect funding sources and questionable motives. There is also the issue of dosing, as the Reuters article rightfully raises. Almost any substance, even water, can be harmful and even fatal in sufficient quantities.
Nonetheless, caveats aside, a substantial body of scientific literature supports the labeling of aspartame as a carcinogen.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
A 2021 study published in Environmental Health following up on another 2007 study investigating the potential cancer-inducing effects of aspartame. See here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042911/
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Aspartame is one of the world’s most widely used artificial sweeteners and is an ingredient in more than 5000 food products globally. A particularly important use is in low-calorie beverages consumed by children and pregnant women.
The Ramazzini Institute (RI) reported in 2006 and 2007 that aspartame causes dose-related increases in malignant tumors in multiple organs in rats and mice. Increased cancer risk was seen even at low exposure levels approaching the Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI). Prenatal exposures caused increased malignancies in rodent offspring at lower doses than in adults.
The state-of-the-art reanalysis of the Ramazzini Institute data [22] confirms that aspartame is a chemical carcinogen in rodents. This reanalysis confirms that 92% of the lesions observed in experimental animals exposed to aspartame in the RI studies were indeed malignant.
This is all just another excuse for the elites to implement communism in our lives.
Aspartame is evil. Stay the heck away from Aspartame. Not everything is a commie conspiracy. If you advocate for aspartame you are ignorant of the truth.
Aspartame was suddenly approved in 1981 when Donald Rumsfeld, former CEO of Searle and new member of President Ronald Reagan’s transition team, appointed a new FDA commissioner.
These are the same assclowns that said red meat, pickled vegetables and aloe Vera are cancerous. And we are not rats (remember sacharrin?)
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Why anyone would willing use an artificial sweetener of any type is beyond me.
The designation of natural or artificial can be a rather arbitrary one. Is table sugar natural? It is processed (milled and chemically refined) from a plant like most sweeteners. Does “natural” mean you must find it outdoors without any changes? By this definition, unheated, unfiltered honey is natural, but many products including sucrose, corn syrup and fructose are not. They are all processed (changed) from their natural state to some degree.
https://www.naturallysweetkitchen.com/how-sugar-is-made-why-its-best-to-avoid/
Avoid processed anything as much as you can. Eat whatever is in season. However if you can't avoid Friday night pizza, that is quite understandable.
Many years ago I heard a single radio report that aspartame caused memory loss in children. Since then I have limited my intake. This stuff can’t be good for people.
I was shocked and disappointed to find that it is in ALL chewing gum found in the grocery store.
And my dried blueberries from Costco have sunflower oil!
It’s hard to eat poison free food.
Sugars can be found in the human bloodstream as a natural product of our digestion and metabolism, your brain up runs on it. Aspartame, not so much.
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