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California Considers Adding Cancer Warning to Aspartame
Are you still consuming Aspartame? You might stop once you read this!
The sales of soda, both diet and regular, have been greatly decreasing for a few decades, since consumers are demanding healthier alternatives.
Pick your poison, either regular soda that can lead to weight gain and diabetes, or diet soda, that can actually stimulate your appetite to eat more and may cause cancer! How about mineral water with a squeeze of lemon? That is a much better alternative.
Artificial sweeteners are found in over 6,000 different processed food products. Different forms of bottled water are soon to overtake overtake soda as the largest beverage category.
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Why Manufacturers Turned to Artificial Sweeteners:
More than one-third of U.S. adults are obese and slightly more than 70% are either overweight or obese.Obesity is linked to some of the leading causes of preventable death in America, including stroke, heart disease, type 2 diabetes and certain cancers. This rising epidemic of obesity triggered the increased use of artificial sweeteners.
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Years of solid scientific research has demonstrated poor health outcomes from the use of aspartame, but The Calorie Control Council uses a well-funded platform to persuade the public to use aspartame for weight loss and weight management, even though it produces the opposite result.
Aspartame stimulates a pleasure center of the brain with its sweetness, but when blood sugar doesn't rise, as it should with a real sweetener, your brain then goes into a survival mode to get the calories that you were "robbed of". This is an oversimplification, but you get the point. This tendency to overeat after consuming aspartame has also been well documented.
California Taking Action Against Aspartame:
Proposition 65 became law in California in 1986, requiring manufacturers to add labeled warnings on products “known by the state of California to cause cancer.”
California’s Carcinogenic Identification Committee (CIC), charged with advising the state Office of Environment Health Hazard Assessment with identification of hazardous materials to be covered under Proposition 65, is now reviewing aspartame.
Despite the FDA’s denial of two Citizen Petitions to ban aspartame, CIC is reviewing the safety of aspartame at its upcoming November meeting. Most of the research allegedly demonstrating safety of the chemical is industry-funded, while those demonstrating side effects are from independent sources.
Research not linked to the manufacturer or to regulatory agencies will provide the majority of the information that will be presented to support the listing of aspartame as a substance known to cause cancer, which means the CIC may require an aspartame warning.
Dr. Morando Soffritti, a cancer researcher from Italy, found that even in doses much lower than accepted in the U.S. and Europe, animals were developing several different forms of cancer when fed aspartame. Sofritti is the head of the European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences, a well-respected, independent and non-profit institution that has been dedicated to cancer prevention for more than 35 years.Another link was made in the Nurse’s Health Study, which spanned 22 years and nearly 120,000 people. Before references to aspartame were deleted from the study, data demonstrated one can of soda a day, raised the risk of leukemia by 42%, multiple myeloma in men by 102% and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men by 31%.