Artificial sweetener consumption and urinary tract tumors in Cordoba,Argentina, MM Andreatta, SE Munoz, MJ Lantieri, AR Eynard, A Navarro, Prev.

Artificial sweetener consumption and urinary tract tumors in
Cordoba, Argentina, MM Andreatta, SE Munoz, MJ Lantieri,
AR Eynard, A Navarro, Prev. Med. 2008.04.08:
Murray 2008.07.01
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Prev Med. 2008 Jul; 47(1): 136-9. Epub 2008 Apr 8.
Artificial sweetener consumption and urinary tract tumors
in Cordoba, Argentina.
Andreatta MM,
Muñoz SE,
Lantieri MJ,
Eynard AR, aeynard@cmefcm.uncor.edu;
Navarro A. anavarro@cmefcm.uncor.edu;
Escuela de Nutrición, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas,
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

OBJECTIVE:
To determine the role of the habitual use of the most common
artificial sweeteners (AS) in the development
of urinary tract tumors (UTT) in Argentina.

METHODS:
Case-control study of 197 patients with histologically confirmed
UTT of transitional varieties, and 397 controls with
acute, non-neoplastic, and non-urinary tract diseases,
admitted to the same hospitals in Córdoba (Argentina)
between 1999 and 2006.

All subjects were interviewed about their use of AS and
their exposure to other known or suspected risk factors for UTT.

RESULTS:
Fifty-one UTT patients (26%) and 87 controls (22%) used AS.

The risk of UTT was significantly increased
in long-term (>/=10 years) AS users compared with none-AS users.

The OR (95% CI) for long-term consumers was 2.18 (1.22-3.89)
and for short-term users was 1.10 (0.61-2.00)
after adjustment for age, gender, BMI, social status,
and years of tobacco use.

CONCLUSION:
Regular use of AS for 10 years or more was positively associated
with UTT. PMID: 18495230
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Attack of the Diet Cokes
It's the one addiction people will admit to. But will Diet Coke --
now 25 years old -- be the same if it comes with vitamins?
By Jerry Adler | Newsweek Web Exclusive

"Mr. Englehart, meet Rich Underkofler,
a 47-year-old from Euclid, Ohio.
"I drink this stuff like crazy," Underkofler says.
"I don't even go to restaurants that don't serve Diet Coke."
Checking his refrigerator one night last week,
he found two 12-packs.
That would last him, he figured, a little more than a day.

With Matthew Philips, Anne Underwood, Karen Springen and
Joan Raymond"

Over 20 cans daily is a serious addiction and health hazard for this
middle aged man.

Likewise, a gallon is over 20 cans:

"Kristen Scaletta, a senior at Northwestern University
in Evanston, Ill., who recently cut back from
about a gallon of Diet Coke a day to three quarts,
drinks it only from cans, preferably at room temperature -- a taste
she formed as a child when she had to sneak it past her parents to
drink in her bedroom."

These are also probable, unnecessary tragedies:

"You might need to, if you're a Diet Coke fanatic like
Victoria Beckham, the former Posh Spice,
who drinks almost nothing else and claims to hate the taste of water.

Diet Coke is the one addiction that public figures willingly own up
to.
It's the only beverage in the back of producer Harvey Weinstein's
limo, and makes up one half the diet of Florida State football coach
Bobby Bowden. The other half consists of peanuts."
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re "A Few too Many", Joan Acocella, The New Yorker,
long review of hangover research 2008.05.26 -- same levels of
formaldehyde and formic acid in FEMA trailers and other sources
(aspartame, dark wines and liquors, tobacco smoke):
Murray 2008.06.05
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.htm
Thursday, June 5, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1541

[ See also:
There really is no controversy, Adrienne Samuels PhD, letter re
evident toxicity of aspartame EJCN 2008.06.11:
Murray 2008.06.30
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.htm
Monday, June 30, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1546

former key Hillary Clinton staff Mark Penn and Patti Solis Doyle
use much neurotoxic aspartame Diet Coke -- also many other
politicians: Murray 2008.06.30
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.htm
Monday, June 30, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1545 ]


formaldehyde and formic acid in FEMA trailers and other sources
(aspartame, dark wines and liquors, tobacco smoke):
Murray 2008.01.30
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.htm
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1508

The FEMA trailers give about the same amount of formaldehyde
and formic acid daily as from a quart of dark wine or liquor,
or two quarts (6 12-oz cans) of aspartame diet soda,
from their over 1 tenth gram methanol impurity
(one part in 10,000), which the body quickly makes into
formaldehyde and then formic acid -- enough to be the major cause
of "morning after" alcohol hangovers.

Methanol and formaldehyde and formic acid also result from
many fruits and vegetables, tobacco and wood smoke, heater
and vehicle exhaust, household chemicals and cleaners, cosmetics,
and new cars, drapes, carpets, furniture, particleboard,
mobile homes, buildings, leather... so all these sources add up
and interact with many other toxic chemicals.

methanol impurity in alcohol drinks [ and aspartame ] is turned into
neurotoxic formic acid, prevented by folic acid, re Fetal Alcohol
Syndrome, BM Kapur, DC Lehotay, PL Carlen at U. Toronto,
Alc Clin Exp Res 2007 Dec. plain text: detailed biochemistry,
CL Nie et al. 2007.07.18: Murray 2008.02.24
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.htm
Sunday, February 24, 2008
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Annals Of Drinking
A Few Too Many
Is there any hope for the hung over?
by Joan Acocella May 26, 2008 themail@newyorker.com

"Wayne Jones, of the Swedish National Laboratory
of Forensic Medicine"
[ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1469
highly toxic formaldehyde, the cause of alcohol hangovers, is
made by the body from 100 mg doses of methanol from
dark wines and liquors, dimethyl dicarbonate, and aspartame:
Murray 2007.08.31 ]

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1286
methanol products (formaldehyde and formic acid) are main cause
of alcohol hangover symptoms [same as from similar amounts of
methanol, the 11% part of aspartame]: YS Woo et al, 2005 Dec:
Murray 2006.01.20

Addict Biol. 2005 Dec;10(4): 351-5.
Concentration changes of methanol in blood samples during
an experimentally induced alcohol hangover state.
Woo YS, Yoon SJ, Lee HK, Lee CU, Chae JH, Lee CT, Kim DJ.
Chuncheon National Hospital, Department of Psychiatry,
The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
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Eur J Cancer Prev. 1998 Jun; 7(3): 207-13.
Alcohol, methylxanthine-containing beverages, and colorectal cancer
in Córdoba, Argentina.
Muñoz SE, Navarro A, Lantieri MJ, Fabro ME, Peyrano MG,
Ferraroni M, Decarli A, La Vecchia C, Eynard AR.
Instituto de Biologia Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas,
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.

The relationship between social class indicators,
body mass index (BMI), selected life-style habits
(alcohol, coffee, maté and tea drinking) and colorectal cancer
was investigated in a case-control study conducted between
1993 and 1997 in Córdoba, Argentina,
a relatively high mortality area of colorectal cancer.

Cases were 190 patients below age 80 years with
incident, histologically confirmed colorectal adenocarcinomas,
and controls were 393 patients admitted to hospital
for a wide spectrum of acute, non-neoplastic disorders.

Higher social class, based on occupation of the head of the
household, was significantly associated with colorectal cancer risk:
the odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI)
were 1.9 (1.2-2.9) for intermediate
and 2.0 (1.2-3.4) for the highest
as compared to the lowest social class individuals.

When compared with subjects whose BMI was < 25 kg/m2,
the OR was 1.1 (0.7-1.6) for those with BMI 25 to 29 kg/m2,
and 1.3 (0.7-2.3) for those > or = 30.

In comparison with alcohol abstainers,
the OR was 2.8 (1.6-5.1) for drinkers,
and there was a significant trend in risk with dose.

The association was observed with wine
(the most common alcoholic beverage in Argentina),
as well as for beer and spirits.

The consumption of coffee, maté and tea was
not significantly related to colorectal cancer,
but the ORs were below unity (0.9 (0.7-1.3) for coffee,
0.9 (0.6-1.2) for maté
and 0.8 (0.6-1.2) for tea drinkers).

The relationship between social class, alcohol drinking and
colorectal cancer were consistent across strata of sex and age.

This study confirms that colorectal cancer
has positive social class correlates.

The association with alcohol drinking is apparently stronger
than previously reported,
and may be due to the role of chance and/or peculiar correlates
of alcohol drinking in this Argentinean population.
PMID: 9696929
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