Posted on 07/14/2023 3:37:37 AM PDT by Libloather
A sweetener used in a swathe of everyday items from diet soft drinks to yoghurt is 'possibly carcinogenic to humans', World Health Organization bosses ruled today.
Aspartame – added to Diet Coke, Extra chewing gum and Muller Light yoghurts – is now classed as posing a 2B cancer risk, meaning there is limited but not convincing evidence.
But WHO bosses also claimed that aspartame does not pose a cancer risk at current consumption levels.
Only people who consume excessive quantities face a heightened risk, researchers concluded.
Nearly 100 products have been given the same ranking as aspartame, from common suncream treatments, foods and jobs.
Aloe vera has been used as a traditional medicine for centuries and is commonly used in skincare, medicines and dietary supplements.
The NHS even recommends using the plant to ease painful sunburns.
However, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) categorised the plant as posing a 2B risk after a two-year study in rats found those who drank water containing aloe vera extract were more likely to develop bowel cancer.
Bracken fern, which is native to Britain and commonly found in woodlands, moors and hillsides, also poses the same risk, according to the WHO.
This is because animal studies suggest that it raises the risk of intestinal and bladder cancers.
Other items that fall into the same category include gasoline, some types of human papillomavirus (HPV) and progesterone-only contraceptives.
The 2B classification only relates to how strong the evidence is regarding a particular substance causing cancer, not how much of a risk it poses.
Traditional pickled Asian vegetables are also in the same group, as studies have linked the food to stomach and oesophageal cancers.
Additionally, progesterone-only contraceptives, such as the mini pill, falls in the same bracket because studies have suggested...
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Uh, oh. Big Coke replies -
Diet Coke IS safe - as long as you don’t drink 14 cans of it every day, says WHO after aspartame cancer scare
Just leave my Kefir Milk and Kombucha alone.
Didn’t we know this years ago?
Saliva causes throat cancer, but only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time...
CC
Nice! Never thought of that…. We cause our own cancer and birth defects.
Is this going to evolve into the world’s version of prop 65?
LAWYERS are salivating at the prospects they see coming from gullible juries.
No one believes anything the WHO says, so why do they keep talking?
Living causes death
Do traces of Aspertame show up in treated sewage water?
We are supposed to start drinking that stuff, I read.
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