aspartame and cancer?

Aspartame is drawing concerns that it may cause cancer. At least in mice. A study based on assumption instead of actual causation experiments think it may also do this in humans. Real sugar is bad for a lot of people, especially diabetics. If you like cheap diet pop sweetened with aspartame, which I do too, this new study might add another worry brow on your forehead. I guess you can buy a soda stream machine and use xylitol or stevia and some kind of flavour....but who wants to do that when you can just reach for a nice cold can of diet pop?

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/other/new-scrutiny-for-aspartame-one-of-the-world-s-most-common-sweeteners/ar-AA1cTny5?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5ed903efdf9847f581190e6d0f49081b&ei=19

shaftless wrote:Aspartame is drawing concerns that it may cause cancer. At least in mice. A study based on assumption instead of actual causation experiments think it may also do this in humans. Real sugar is bad for a lot of people, especially diabetics. If you like cheap diet pop sweetened with aspartame, which I do too, this new study might add another worry brow on your forehead. I guess you can buy a soda stream machine and use xylitol or stevia and some kind of flavour....but who wants to do that when you can just reach for a nice cold can of diet pop?

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/health/other/new-scrutiny-for-aspartame-one-of-the-world-s-most-common-sweeteners/ar-AA1cTny5?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5ed903efdf9847f581190e6d0f49081b&ei=19

Aspartame was never supposed to be 'approved.'

Aspartame has been controversial since day one. Searle, the manufacturer, had failed to win FDA approval for 16 years and was under investigation for performing fraudulent studies. 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.

The controversy never died down. Today for example, the State of New Mexico is attempting to ban aspartame. It is banned in Japan and officially discouraged in China. But in the USA, the FDA and lobbying groups like the Calorie Council continue to proclaim its safety.

A 1996 review of past research conducted on aspartame found that every industry-funded study had said the sweetener was safe to consume. However 92 percent of independent studies claim one or more problems exist with its use, the British newspaper the Guardian reported.

The history of the research and approval process has long been considered suspect. Probably the most thorough collection of that history is presented by Betty Martini, founder of Mission Possible International, a global volunteer force warning the public of aspartame’s dangers.

http://www.wnho.net/history_of_aspartame.htm

There's a long history of banned sugar substitutes like saccharin and cyclamate...even tho saccharin has been unbanned and is now popular again in a lot of countries. I wonder if acesulfame potassium being similar to aspartame that it might share some of the bad qualities like maybe being a cancer-causer. But so far that one isn't under the microscope yet.

shaftless wrote:There's a long history of banned sugar substitutes like saccharin and cyclamate...even tho saccharin has been unbanned and is now popular again in a lot of countries. I wonder if acesulfame potassium being similar to aspartame that it might share some of the bad qualities like maybe being a cancer-causer. But so far that one isn't under the microscope yet.

I had heard that cyclamate tasted good. The FDA banned the sweetener cyclamate, 1969. Robert Scheuplein, who was the acting Director of FDA’s Toxicological Services Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition was quoted as saying “the decision was more a matter of politics than science.”

There's potential health effects of acesulfame potassium, such as cancer, hormone disruption, thyroid damage, weight gain and changes in brain function, all based on animal research.