The paper posted below was already posted once by someone else who also claimed that aspartame was bad for you at normal doses without understanding what is written in the paper, like the current poster and the journalist whose bogus non-scientific article he posted on Goanet earlier. At the first Goanet posting of the link to that paper, I had posted the following rebuttal, refuting those claims on scientific grounds, and explaining to Goanetters as to exactly what the paper says in stark contrast to the bogus claims:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg68964.html Here is the pertinent quote in that post of mine: QUOTE As for the claim that aspartame causes liver and lung cancers, if you read the research paper it is advertising, you will find that it has nothing to do with human beings or aspartame containing diet drinks or foods. The paper is about giving huge doses of aspartame to mice to find out how high one has to go to increase slightly the number of malignant tumors that are normally produced in male mice as they age. The dose of aspartame that accomplishes this in a statistically significant manner is equivalent to a 70 kg man drinking 2189 diet coke cans everyday throughout his life, with his mother doing the same when she was pregnant with him in her womb. That amounts to drinking one can of diet coke every 39 seconds 24 hours a day from the time one was a fetus till one's death. UNQUOTE ....Santosh Helekar In another earlier post (Please see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg69017.html), I have explained as follows: QUOTE 1. That all substances consumed by us are toxic and lethal when consumed in high doses in human beings and all other animals, including rats and mice. For example, if a 70 kg human being drinks more than 6.3 liters of water, then there is a 50% chance that he/she will die immediately, extrapolating from studies in rodents. Similar extrapolation indicates that the table salt we eat can kill a 70 kg person with 50% probability if he/she eats a food item containing more than 210 grams of it. Comparable lethality values for sugar and vitamin C are 2 kilograms and 133 grams, respectively. Please name any substance you eat and your weight, and I can tell you how much of it will kill you. 2. Many substances consumed by us produce cancers (i. e. are carcinogenic) at high doses in rats and mice (as in the case of the recycled Industrial Medicine paper reposted by Con Menezes below). For example, this is a list of some of the food items that contain or produce carcinogenic substances - Most foods cooked or baked at high temperature, barbecued or grilled meat, most fried foods, apples, potatoes, carrots, pepper, onions, tomatoes, ground nuts, cheese, radishes, mushrooms, pineapples, grapes, rice, wheat, maize and peas. Please give me any food item you eat, and I will show you a mouse or rat study that proves that a substance contained in it or produced by it is carcinogenic at high doses. UNQUOTE ....Santosh Helekar I would therefore ask Goanetters not to pay any attention to the posts circulated here from the various political activist and lay "natural" health fad websites. They are going to mislead you every step of the way. Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 6/12/11, Con Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here is an anwer to Santosh Helekar's > ascertion that the harm that aspartame causes is 'bogus > information'. His advice? ' > 'dont be mislead'. More proof here, friend. > Con > http://www.ramazzini.it/ricerca/pdfUpload/APM%20administered%20in%20feed_Am.J.Ind.Med_2010.pdf >
