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Acesulfame K - Known as Sunette or Sweet One, a sugar substitute in chewing gum, dry mixes for beverages, instant coffee and tea, gelatin desserts, and non-dairy creamers; causes cancer.
Artificial colorings - The great bulk of artificial colorings used in food are synthetic dyes. For decades synthetic food dyes have been suspected of being toxic or carcinogenic and many have been banned.
Aspartame - Equal and NutraSweet.: causes phenylketonuria (PKU). One out of 20,000 babies is born without the ability to metabolize phenylalanine, one of the two amino acids in aspartame; mental retardation. altered brain function and behavior changes; dizziness, headaches, epileptic-like seizures, and menstrual problems.
BHA & BHT - added to oil-containing foods to prevent oxidation and retard rancidity; carcinogenic to humans.
Caffeine - promotes stomach-acid secretion (increasing the symptoms of peptic ulcers), temporarily raises blood pressure, and dialates some blood vessels while constricting others. Excessive caffeine intake results in "caffeinism," with symptoms ranging from nervousness to insomnia; interferes with reproduction and affects developing fetuses cleft palates, missing fingers and toes, and skull malformations); mildly addictive.
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) - headaches, tightness in the chest, and a burning sensation in the forearms an the back of the neck.
Sodium Nitrite and Nitrate - In processed meat. When nitrite combines with compounds called secondary amines, it forms nitrosamines, extremely powerful cancer-causing chemicals. Nitrite has long been suspected as being a cause of stomach cancer.
Olestra - Fake fat recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA): it attaches to nutrients and flushes them out of the body. Some of these nutrients -- called carotenoids -- appear to protect us from such diseases as lung cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease, and macular degeneration. The Harvard School of Public Health states that "the long-term consumption of olestra snack foods might therefore result in several thousand unnecessary deaths each year from lung and prostate cancers and heart disease, and hundreds of additional cases of blindness in the elderly due to macular degeneration. Besides contributing to disease, olestra causes diarrhea and other serious gastrointestinal problems, even at low doses."
Saccharin - cancer.
Sulfites – can provoke severe allergic reactions. CSPI and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) identified at least a dozen fatalities linked to sulfites. All of the deaths occurred among asthmatics.
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