Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
06/13/2012
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RIO - Sugar, saccharin, aspartame or sucralose? The worldwide market for artificial sweeteners generates US$ 1.5 billion per year, but often when looking for the best way to cut calories and sugar, the consumer finds himself in a Russian roulette. After all, what is the safest?
The FDA, U.S. agency that regulates food and drugs, tried to ban saccharin in 1970, because experiments with rats have shown that rodents who ate a lot of saccharin developed bladder cancer. Congress postponed the ban saccharin went on the tables of restaurants and in 1991 the FDA withdrew the proposed ban. In 2000, after a study showed that the action of saccharin is different in rats and humans, the FDA withdrew to the warnings about the substance.
The FDA puts the top three sweeteners on the market today in the same category: "generally recognized as safe".
Based on conventional considerations of food safety, the scientific community believes that these tests are suitable for any potential toxicity, said the doctor and professor of pathology at New York Medical College, Gary Williams, in "The New York Times."
Artificial sweeteners are actually much more intense than sugar, so people consume less in quantity, while the tests are done in animals at doses hundreds or thousands of times larger. Critics, however, are primarily about aspartame that neurological problems, headaches and cancers occur but regulatory agencies ignore them.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group American health claims a label "avoid" for saccharin and aspartame, but considers sucralose and neotame (a new and more intense chemically similar to aspartame sweetener) safe. The group also warns against acesulfame-k, a sweetener that is less common but combined with other sweeteners for soft drinks and candy for a sweeter result, the sugar-free Halls use this type, for example.
For those who think the solution is stevia, derived from plants, beware: "just because it's natural does not mean it's safe," says the group's website. White sugar is the purest sweetener, it is natural but your health risk is more than established: fattening. And obesity leads to other health problems like diabetes, heart disease and even cancer.
In research published last year, with an analysis of health data on more than one hundred thousand nurses in the U.S. in about 25% was found a relationship between weight gain and consumption of sugary drinks and desserts. And no weight gain associated with consuming artificially sweetened beverages.
Source: Journal of Health
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