Word: saccharine
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...Does saccharin cause bladder cancer in human beings? This question is at the center of a debate that has raged since March 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration announced?largely on the basis of tests on rats?that it was planning to ban the artificial sweetener. Deluged with complaints from food manufacturers and consumers, Congress imposed an 18-month delay on the ban. Now come two reports that question the wisdom of any prohibition of saccharin...
...study at Johns Hopkins University, Epidemiologists Irving I. Kessler and J. Page Clark questioned 519 patients with bladder cancer. The patients were asked about their consumption of saccharin and cyclamate (an artificial sweetener banned in 1970) in beverages and foods. Their answers to these and questions relating to smoking habits, occupation, diabetes and other factors were then compared with responses from 519 patients who were matched for sex, race, age and marital status but who did not have cancer or any bladder problems. The results, reported in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that consumption...
...Supreme Court's ruling on the Bakke case seems to say that unadulterated race in quotas is unlawful but a dab of color mixed with other considerations is acceptable. It is like saying that saccharin is unacceptable in meeting the need for a sweetener but all right if mixed with other ingredients...
...well-publicized warnings against smoking, he stopped inhaling three packs of cigarettes a day. Instead, he began eating four daily meals and ballooned. Now on a diet, backed by a 45-min. noon-hour jog around the Mall, he has ignored his own department's cautions about saccharin. He often drinks Tab at lunch. And he is a shade sensitive about the tendency of cartoonists to exaggerate his double chin...
...sign that the public is rebelling against these costly and cumbersome regulations is that they are being spoofed in that most popular graphic art form, the comic strips. Weidenbaum's walls are adorned with comics and editorial cartoons roasting everything from the ban against saccharin to the rising Matterhorn of forms to be filled out. In one strip, a weary Santa Claus complains about "all the environmental impact statements I gotta file for these flying reindeer...