Word: soda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven years ago, which left saccharin as the only FDA-approved artificial sweetener. In recent Canadian tests, some rats that were fed enormous doses of saccharin developed bladder cancer. To take in an equivalent amount of saccharin, a human would have to drink at least 800 cans of diet soda every day. Under the law, however, the FDA had no choice: the so-called Delaney amendment of 1958 to the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act forces it to ban any food additives that produce cancer in humans or laboratory animals, no matter what the dosage...
...Sherwin-Williams Co. of Cleveland, the sole U.S. producer of saccharin, whose output accounts for 65% of the 8 million lbs. consumed yearly by Americans. Researchers pointed to the enormous quantities of saccharin fed the test rats-equivalent to consumption by a human of some 800 cans of diet soda each day over a lifetime. Said Duke University Biochemist Henry Kamin: "The dosages are so large that the result means nothing." In Albany, N.Y., Dr. Frederick Coulston revealed that his tests on monkeys-much closer to humans than are rats-revealed no harmful effects. Said he: "We gave saccharin...
...Soda, chips, coffee and doughnuts will round out the menu for dedicated tube watchers...
...effective a boycott could be is uncertain. The hardened coffee addict is no more likely to drink tea than an alcoholic is to develop a taste for orange soda. Coffee can thus withstand price rises that most other commodities cannot. Camillo Calazans, president of the Brazilian Coffee Institute, concedes that there is a limit to what people will pay for coffee. But he does not think a U.S. boycott will seriously cut into Brazil's coffee exports-or prices...
...Tease. Here's Life markets Jesus the way others might introduce a new brand of soda pop to a city. I FOUND IT! tease the TV and newspaper ads, billboards, buttons, bumper stickers. Found what? The ads offer a telephone number that will provide the answer: Jesus. In Chicago, church members manned 100 telephones 15 hours a day. Said one local convert, Banker William McLaren: "I had an unbelievable feeling. I cried for six hours...