Word: saccharine
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Think diet soda helps you lose weight? Think again. According to a study in the International Journal of Obesity, artificially sweetened, low-calorie foods can thwart your ability to regulate how much you eat--if you are a rat, that is. Researchers found that lab animals sometimes fed saccharin-sweetened liquid consumed more food than did rats given an equally sweet but always high-calorie liquid. (Rats given a high-cal supplement the consistency of milk also gained more weight than did rats fed a thicker, pudding-like substance.) The study's authors think the same phenomenon may hold true...
...safety issue first arose in the '60s, when cyclamates were banned as likely carcinogens. Saccharin, which is found in Sweet'n Low, was labeled a possible carcinogen in the early '70s and had to carry a warning until 2000. Products with aspartame (NutraSweet) have always been labeled dangerous for people with phenylketonuria, a relatively rare condition. And sucralose (marketed as Splenda) bears no warning label...
...Public Interest, believes there's no "slam dunk" proof that any of the artificial sweeteners is clearly dangerous or perfectly safe. But "based on what we know so far," he says, "I think that sucralose is safe, that aspartame is probably safe and that serious questions about saccharin remain"--though the risk to an individual is very...
...cans per day is the amount of diet soda you'd have to drink, says the Medi-cal College of Wisconsin, in order to consume the amount of saccharin used in a famed study that once claimed it caused cancer...
...want the darkness. It's what makes the story truly interesting, and it's the reason The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite movie in the saga thus far. A happy ending may please the crowd, but a dark ending will make people think. There are plenty of saccharin-sweet movies out there. I want something I have to wrap my mind around. MELISSA MORTH Houston...