Throw Away Your Favourite Sweetener (It May Be Killing You)

Could there be a link between breast cancer and artificial sweeteners? For years, manufacturers and the FDA reassured the public that they’re completely safe. Are they? Today, let’s look at the relationship between breast cancer and artificial sweeteners, including how they work to cause cancer.

There are different types of artificial sweeteners out there, like saccharin, sucralose, and acesulfame potassium. For the sake of discussion, I’m going to focus on the most popular type, aspartame.

Aspartame is a “first-generation” artificial sweetener. It’s 200 times sweeter than regular sugar, so it’s a favorite ingredient in many food and beverage products. You may know it as NutraSweet, Spoonful, and Equal.

At first, the FDA didn’t approve of this as a sugar substitute. Through dirty political and regulatory tactics, G.D. Searle & Company finally got the go signal to sell it as an artificial sweetener in dry goods in 1981.

Since artificial sweeteners are FDA-approved, they must be 100% safe, right?

Aspartame Approval — FDA’s Fatal Mistake

For decades, health advocates have been asking the FDA to re-evaluate their decision about artificial sweeteners because of a possible breast cancer link.

Well, health groups aren’t really happy and want the FDA to re-evaluate their decision because artificial sweeteners may play a role in the incidence of breast cancer.

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