Re: CNN news article (today)

[Guest guest]

OH, no! It's heresy! Heresy, I say.

Everyone knows that artificial flavors and sweeteners cause cancer.

And they corrode your stomach, too.

Maybe they didn't ask enough questions.... surely something must be off, here...

Meanwhile, the moral to this story would be -- that diet soda isn't bad for you?

Did the report say who PAID for the study or who sponored the research?

Just curious.

Thanks . . . . I will now continue to drink all the artificially flavored and

sweetened sodas

that I had already intended to drink . . . and feel a little better about it,

too.

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> Mayne, a cancer epidemiologist at the Yale University School of

medicine, and

colleagues studied 1,095 cancer patients and compared them to 687 healthy

control

subjects. They conducted full dietary interviews and compiled data on how much

regular

and diet soda each subject drank.

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> The researchers found that soda drinkers were actually less likely to develop

esophageal

carcinoma. Furthermore, when the researchers separated subjects who drank mostly

regular soda versus diet soda, they found that the latter group had a 53 percent

lower risk

of developing the cancer.

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> The researchers warned against chugging diet soda as a ward against cancer,

however,

since it carries its own health risks, such as damaging tooth enamel.

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> The study was detailed in the Jan. 4 issue of the Journal of the

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> National Cancer Institute.

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[Guest guest]

There's a correlation but that doesn't necessarily mean causality.

Probably what happened is the aspartame broke down to formaldehyde and

preserved the cells so well that they couldn't become cancerous.