Word: bladders
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...things that could one day kill you, a diet soda should not be high on the list. Twenty years ago, however, diet soda seemed like lethal stuff--or at least the saccharin it contained did. According to studies at the time, saccharin was a direct cause of bladder cancer. Of course, in order for the sweetener to do you harm, it had to make up at least 3% of the gross weight of food you ate every day--no easy task for a substance consumed by the quarter-teaspoonful. Oh, and it also helped if you were a laboratory...
BENZIDINE-BASED DYES Nothing harmful about these compounds, which are used to color textiles and paper--until they're inhaled or enter the mouth. Once in the body, though, they break down into free benzidine, a cause of bladder cancer...
...Rowings, 60, a retired high school Latin teacher. In 1995 Rowings began teaching part time at a reduced salary. "I tried to make ends meet," she says, "and I did pretty well for a couple of years, but then it all went downhill." She had four operations, including gall bladder surgery and orthoscopic procedures on both shoulders...
After the first hour, it became difficult to find reasons to be in the bathroom. I grew so self-conscious after the first seven minutes at the urinal that I began to mutter things like "My bladder is as full as the guest list at the Vanity Fair party" and "Katzenberg makes...
...must have gone a whole day. My bladder must be the size of a large hot-water bottle. I was very proud...