Aspartame-New York Times:blog

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This is part of a blog that is affiliated with the New York Times:************ ********* ******Q: Are artificial sweeteners (namely aspartame) today's tobacco? A: Aspartame is unlikely to become as clearly tied with cancer as tobacco, nor is its risk likely to be as high. The concerns about aspartame relate to two matters - it was not well-tested, and it has become ubiquitous in people of all ages. The testing of its ability to cause cancer was not adequately conducted before it was approved by the FDA, within five months of Reagan's inauguration. Prior to that time, every single scientific panel to review the data on aspartame's safety rejected approval of it. Recent data from a respected scientific institution in Italy reports that animals that have low doses of aspartame, comparable to what can be consumed in a diet today, have increased rates of tumors when they reach an age equivalent to the human age of sixty. With aspartame, as with many modern technologies, we are carrying out uncontrolled experiments on our children, the full results of which will only become apparent in forty years or so. Animal studies have found that every agent that we know causes cancer in humans also causes cancer in animals, when adequately tested. We would be profoundly mistaken to ignore these latest studies from animals. The human studies that have exonerated aspartame have involved looking at older people, and have never asked about the damaging effects on children of using the product throughout their lifetimes.************ ********* ******You can read the whole thing athttp://freakonomics .blogs.nytimes. com/2007/ 11/08/devra- davis-responds- to-your-cancer- questions/Bryant************ ********* ********* ********* ****Aspartame Victims Support Group is the largest and oldest such group of its kind in the world, at http://presidiotex. com/aspartame