Sweetener 'linked' to leukemias

BBC ^ | 07.14.05

[Coleus]

I like my can or two of diet soda.

Remember everything in moderation

[basil]

I always take a natural substance (sugar, in this case) over an artificial one.

Moderation is the key--you're right about that!

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Betty Martini's still on the warpath.

[TheGeezer]

Where is that blasted tinfoil hat???!!! If it weren't for the retinoma caused by aspartame, I could see it, darn it!!!!

[Boazo]

[Coleus]

First I've heard of her.

[The Great RJ]

All this of course assumes that aspartamine is metabolized in rats EXACTLY the same way as in humans and has the EXACT same effects on human cancer development. Since aspartamine has been widely used for several years where is the epidemiological data that suggests an increase in these types of cancer in humans?

Its the old lets feed rats mega doses of this stuff to see if it either gives them cancer or kills them. I would venture to say that similar effects could be shown by giving rats natural sugar.

[Trillian]

I gotta wonder how much of this stuff you'd actually have to consume to have a chance at getting a cancer.

I cannot stand the taste of the stuff and avoid it because of that.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

She's been around for a while. She even got herself ZOTted from FR once.

[flashbunny]

yep- sugar is better than nutrasweet. Butter is better than margarine.

Unless for some reason you can't eat the real thing, always go for the real thing.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Your take?

[RWCon]

"Duluth, Georgia "

Now wheere have I heard of that place recently?

[Born Conservative]

I firmly believe that if you drink 200 cans of diet soda (with Aspartame) a day for 20 years, you will eventually get cancer....

[TheGeezer]

LOL!

Thank you.

[roylene]

Aspartame comes from a substance found in a protein in beef. Eating a 4oz hamburger has 60X the amount of the substance as one pack of aspartame. I am old enough to remember a Thanksgiving with no cranberries because some doctor did a study somewhere that showed cranberries caused cancer (reveled later that you would have to eat 60 cans a day for ten years).

[Coleus]

thanks for the info...guess she got into too many arguments with freepers over this issue.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Your take?

Since I work at the larest plant in the world, for 23 years, and no one has died that loads 16 tons a day, I call Bullsh!t.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

PS: We just broke into some new Erupeon markets, it sounds like Dutch State Mines(the #2 maker) is trying to scare away some business.

[Prime Choice]

Fresh doubts about the safety of [aspartame] have been raised by Italian scientists who have linked its use to leukaemias in rodents.

Bah. I remember when the reports came out about the incidence of bladder cancer in rats that were OD'd on sodium saccharine. Turned out that humans would have to consume something on the order of 20 pounds of the stuff every day for 20 years to develop the same sort of health problems.

With that in mind, I'll take this report with a 20-pound grain of salt for the next 20 years.