Word: saccharined
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...while, the headlines sounded like a rerun of the saccharin story: LABORATORY TESTS INDICATE COMMON FOOD ADDITIVE CAUSES CANCER ... GOVERNMENT PROPOSES BAN . .. PLAUDITS FROM CONSUMER GROUPS, PROTESTS FROM FOOD INDUSTRY .. . PUBLIC CONFUSED. But this time, the chemical in question was sodium nitrite, a preservative widely used in meat, poultry and fish. Added to $14.5 billion worth of food yearly, mostly processed items like bacon, sausages, hot dogs and cold cuts, the substance not only prevents the growth of botulism-causing bacteria but also gives these foods an appetizing pink color...
...spots, like the saccharin (in Browne's words "Very White") declaration at the album's finish, sound on the first spins like a spontaneous outpouring of banal feelings, and half-felt at that, more play makes it seem likely that they are, and that Browne is not steadfastly serious about them. He's still wandering the tightrope between a purely romantic sensibility and the flatly cynical "life is shit so let's screw," attitude of a Satyr...
...million and paid a dividend of 34? a share. This year the company will dispatch more than 18 million of its well-bred rats, mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys to research laboratories throughout the world, where in the name of science the creatures will debauch themselves gobbling saccharin, lushing liquor and inhaling cigarette smoke...
...Morrison and Julie Buring of the Harvard School of Public Health and reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, focused on the dietary habits of 592 bladder-cancer patients and a comparable control group of people in good health. No significant difference was found in the amount of saccharin consumed by the two groups, and thus no link between the sweetener and cancer. A similar conclusion, published in Science, was reached in a six-city study of 367 bladder-cancer patients and as many healthy subjects carried out by Drs. Ernest Wynder and Steven Stellman of the American Health...
Still, even the scientists involved in the latest tests continue to urge caution. In a New England Journal editorial, Dr. Robert Hoover, who reported the National Cancer Institute results, notes that the tests showed only that saccharin had not caused any of the current bladder tumors in patients. Because the sweetener has been in widespread use only since the 1960s, it could have still undiscovered long-range carcinogenic effects on the bladder and other organs. Thus, Hoover warns, "any use by nondiabetic children or pregnant women, heavy use by young women of child-bearing age and excessive use by anyone...