OT- The NutraSweet thing?

I wanted to start this in a new thread because I feared it would get
lost in the thread of the original post.

Here's a question a scientist would ask: did we as a nation see a spike
in cancers, especially in cancers of a certain type, after the
introduction of NutraSweet?

Think about it---people are consuming literally tons of the stuff and
have been since it replaced saccharin. If it were carcinogenic to any
appreciable degree then we as a nation would have seen a huge spike on
cancer deaths. And there's been time to see this result even if it were
only visible in the long-term. Hasn't NutraSweet been on the market for
at least 20 years?

Do we have the cancer data to support saying it's bad?

"Sean Elkins" <sean_elkins@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:sean_elkins-274F91.09213018022006@news.iglou.com...[color=blue]
>I wanted to start this in a new thread because I feared it would get
> lost in the thread of the original post.
>
> Here's a question a scientist would ask: did we as a nation see a spike
> in cancers, especially in cancers of a certain type, after the
> introduction of NutraSweet?
>
> Think about it---people are consuming literally tons of the stuff and
> have been since it replaced saccharin. If it were carcinogenic to any
> appreciable degree then we as a nation would have seen a huge spike on
> cancer deaths. And there's been time to see this result even if it were
> only visible in the long-term. Hasn't NutraSweet been on the market for
> at least 20 years?
>
> Do we have the cancer data to support saying it's bad?[/color]

I'm not so worried about cancer as I am other metabolic disorders, such as
diabetes and hypertension.

Natalie