Coca-Cola touts 'safe, high-quality' 'carcinogen'

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'Health professionals are horrified by a new ad campaign by Coca-Cola promoting its use of artificial sweeteners, including aspartame, because ingredients the iconic company calls “safe” and “high-quality” allegedly cause cancer and other diseases.

“Twenty years ago I wasn’t sure, but now there’s little doubt in my mind that artificial sweeteners can be far worse for you than sugar and fructose, and there is plenty of scientific evidence to back up that conclusion,” wrote Dr. Joseph Mercola in his online blog Mercola.com.

The Weston A. Price Foundation had expressed alarm when aspartame was proposed to be used in flavored milks for children without any notice to consumers.

“Numerous scientific studies point to toxic effects of aspartame, including cancer, digestive issues and memory impairment,” the organization said. “In spite of this evidence, the International Dairy Foods Association and the National Milk Producers Federation recently submitted a petition to the FDA to hide the chemical sweetener without declaring it on the front of the packaging.”

The organization said thousands of “adverse reactions to aspartame have been reported to the FDA, mostly concerned with abnormal brain function, brain tumors, epilepsy and Parkinson’s.’

Children’s brains “are four times more susceptible to damage from excitotoxins like aspartame than those of adults and react with ADD ADHD type symptoms, impaired learning, depression and nausea,” the Price Foundation said.

The federal government, through the FDA itself, also has commented on aspartame.'