Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kurt J. Isselbacher, Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, was one of five scientists who testified that the benefits of using saccharin are great for obese or diabetic people, vastly outweighing the "remote" risk of cancer involved...
Chiang Ch'ing came to love this child, rearing him as her own son until the early 1950's, when she had to undergo radiotherapy for cancer. Naturally, the intensive medical care made it difficult for her to look after him. "Others" (unnamed) decided that she was no longer able to mother him. Against her pleadings "they" tore him away from her, refusing to tell her where he would be placed. The loss was profound, for he was very bright; at the age of three he could sing the Internationale from start to finish. She never found...
During the 1950s, Chiang Ch'ing faded almost entirely from the political scene. Reason: cervical cancer and other ailments. In the 1960s, her health finally restored, she emerged from relative obscurity to dazzling prominence. At first she worked from behind the scenes, playing an increasing role in the arts, particularly as a chief critic of "bourgeois" plays and movies. Early opposition to her was swept aside by the Cultural Revolution. Conceived by Mao as a way of re-revolutionizing the Communist Party, the massive assault on the bureaucracy soon got completely out of control, degenerating into constant factional violence...
Though the FDA admitted there was no evidence that saccharin had caused cancer in humans during the 80 years the sweetener has been used in the U.S., the agency had no choice but to seek the ban. Under a 1958 amendment to the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act, sponsored by former New York Representative James Delaney, any food additive-no matter in what quantities-that causes cancer either in humans or lab animals must be prohibited. The same law may yet be invoked in other bans in the months ahead, though the FDA is clearly not happy with the amendment...
...common sense!" The American Diabetes Association was so concerned about how to deal with the saccharin crisis that it scheduled an emergency meeting. Said Dr. Donnell Etzwiler of Minneapolis, head of the Diabetes Association: "Taking away low-calorie sweeteners may well be a more serious health threat than this cancer 'threat.'" Diabetics are not the only ones who may be hurt by the ban. Millions of other Americans are overweight, a condition that can lead to such difficulties as hypertension and cardiovascular disease; without diet foods, their number is likely to swell...