News Clip: Aspartame / Cyclamate
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
ASPARTAME PRODUCTS
00:00:00:00 [Study at Emory indicates that Aspartame/Nutrasweet may cause brain damage to unborn children]-- Var shots products containing sweetner/ (0:00)/
ASPARTAME / SUGAR FREE PRODUCTS
SJT TAXE PLATS PREPARES
8:00 p.m.: [July 14, 2023 broadcast]
ASPARTAME SUGAR SUBSTITUTE
INTERVIEW WITH DR RICHAR WURTMAN.
News Clip: Diet Coke
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
FILE- PEPSI BRINGING BACK DIET PEPSI W/ ASPARTAME
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PEPSI WILL SOON HAVE THREE DIET DRINK OPTIONS. 
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JUST A YEAR AFTER DITCHING ASPARTAME, PEPSI IS RE-INTRODUCING THE ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER. 
PEPSICO SAYS A NEW OFFERING WILL BE MADE WITH ASPARTAME AND ACE-K-- 
IT WILL BE CALLED DIET PEPSI CLASSIC SWEETENER BLEND. 
THE DRINKS WILL ON STORE SHELVES IN SEPTEMBER...AND SOLD IN 20-OUNCE AND TWO-LITER BOTTLES, ALONG WITH 12-PACKS. 
PEPSI INITIALLY DUMPED ASPARTAME OVER PUBLIC CONCERNS ABOUT THE SWEETENER"S HEALTH EFFECTS. 
NOW, IT SAYS CONSUMERS WANT CHOICE IN DIET COLAS -- SO IT"S JUST ADJUSTING TO BUYERS TASTES.
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PEPSI HEALTH DIET PEPSI MAX ZERO ACE-K


ASPARTAME SUGAR SUBSTITUTE
CUTAWAYS. INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD WURTMAN.
News Clip: Aspartame
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
(VO) WORLD HEALTH ORG: ASPARTAME IS "POSSIBLY CARCINOGENIC"
<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:24 - :51</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:51 - :56</p>\n<p>CalorieCounter.org</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:56 - 1:05</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:05 - 1:20</p>\n<p>American Beverage</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:20 - 1:31</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN--</b></p>\n<p>SOME PEOPLE MAY WANT TO TRADE THEIR DIET SOFT DRINKS FOR A GLASS OF WATER.</p>\n<p>THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS THE LONG-USED ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER ASPARTAME.....FOUND IN MANY FOODS AND DRINKS.....COULD LEAD TO POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS.</p>\n<p>JOHN LORINC REPORTS.</p>\n<p><b>--VO SCRIPT</b>--</p>\n<p>ASPARTAME MAY NOT BE AS SWEET AS YOU THINK....FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING.</p>\n<p>ASIDE FROM DIET SODAS AND LOW-CALORIE FOODS, THE ARTIFICIAL SWEETNER IS IN ROUGHLY SIX-THOUSAND PRODUCTS WORLD-WIDE, ACCORDING TO THE CALORIE CONTROL COUNCIL.</p>\n<p>AND NOW A SEMI-INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE WITHIN THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WHO SAYS ASPARTAME SHOULD BE DEEMED QUOTE "POSSIBLY CARCINOGENIC TO HUMANS."</p>\n<p>BUT.....THERE'S A CAVEAT.....THE W-H-O SAYS THE EVIDENCE WAS QUOTE "LIMITED."</p>\n<p>SO, AT LEAST FOR NOW, HEALTH OFFICIALS RECOMMEND: MODERATION, MODERATION, MODERATION.</p>\n<p>AMERICAN BEVERAGE.....A GROUP THAT REPRESENTS THE NON-ALCOHOLIC DRINK INDUSTRY....</p>\n<p>SAID IN A STATEMENT QUOTE: “THE FACT THAT FOOD SAFETY AGENCIES WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING THE FDA, CONTINUE TO FIND ASPARTAME SAFE MAKES US CONFIDENT IN THE SAFETY OF OUR PRODUCTS.”</p>\n<p><b>--TAG--</b></p>\n<p>THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION GAVE THE NOD TO ASPARTAME USE IN SOME FOODS AND DRINKS IN 1974....BUT THAT WAS SUSPENDED FOR A FEW YEARS DUE TO POTENTIAL HEALTH CONCERNS.</p>\n<p>IN 19-83 THE F-D-A SET AN ASPARTAME GUIDELINE AT 50-MILLIGRAMS PER KILOGRAM OF A PERSON'S WEIGHT.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>NATIONAL US HEALTH FOODS DRINKS WHO FDA CANCER</p>\n<p></p>
1 p.m.: [July 14, 2023 broadcast]
12 13 National edition: [issue of 14 July 2023]
ASPARTAME NEWS CONFERENCE
DR. JOHN OLNEY OF THE COMMUNITY NUTRITION INSTITUTE, FORMER SENATOR METZENBAUM WITH CONSUMER FEDERATION ANT OTHERS HOLD A COUNTER NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE SAFETY OF NUTRASWEET / ASPARTAME.
NUTRASWEET
00:00:00:00 [New lo-cal wonder sweetener] Soft drinks on shelves of supermarket aisles :05/ CU cans "DIET COKE...sans sucre!...avec Aspartame "; pan to cans of "TAB...nouvelle saveur ...
ASPARTAME NEWS CONFERENCE
DR. JOHN OLNEY OF THE COMMUNITY NUTRITION INSTITUTE, FORMER SENATOR METZENBAUM WITH CONSUMER FEDERATION ANT OTHERS HOLD A COUNTER NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE SAFETY OF NUTRASWEET / ASPARTAME.
19 20 National edition: [issue of 14 July 2023]
WORLD HEALTH ORG: ASPARTAME IS "POSSIBLY CARCINOGENIC" (4:00AMET)
<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:24 - :35</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:36 - :51</p>\n<p>Dr. Mary Schubauer-Berigan</p>\n<p>Program Head, IARC Monographs, WHO</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:51 - :56</p>\n<p>CalorieCounter.org</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:57 - 1:05</p>\n<p>Dr. Francesco Branca</p>\n<p>Director, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:05 - 1:20</p>\n<p>American Beverage</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:20 - 1:31</p>\n<p>World Health Organization</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN--</b></p>\n<p>SOME PEOPLE MAY WANT TO TRADE THEIR DIET SOFT DRINKS FOR A GLASS OF WATER.</p>\n<p>THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS THE LONG-USED ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER ASPARTAME.....FOUND IN MANY FOODS AND DRINKS.....COULD LEAD TO POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS.</p>\n<p>JOHN LORINC REPORTS.</p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS--</b></p>\n<p>ASPARTAME MAY NOT BE AS SWEET AS YOU THINK....FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING.</p>\n<p>ASIDE FROM DIET SODAS AND LOW-CALORIE FOODS, THE ARTIFICIAL SWEETNER IS IN ROUGHLY SIX-THOUSAND PRODUCTS WORLD-WIDE, ACCORDING TO THE CALORIE CONTROL COUNCIL.</p>\n<p>AND EVERY TIME A PERSON INGESTS ASPARTAME, THE MOLECULE BREAKS DOWN INTO THREE-PIECES.</p>\n<p>--Nat sot--</p>\n<p>“Phenylalanine, aspatic acid and methanol.”</p>\n<p>AND NOW A SEMI-INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE WITHIN THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WHO SAYS ASPARTAME SHOULD BE DEEMED QUOTE "POSSIBLY CARCINOGENIC TO HUMANS."</p>\n<p>BUT.....THERE'S A CAVEAT.</p>\n<p>Dr. Mary Schubauer-Berigan/Program Head, IARC Monographs, WHO</p>\n<p>“Despite consistent positive findings in these three studies, the working group concluded that chance, bias and confounding could not be ruled out with reasonable confidence and thus they concluded that the evidence was limited.”</p>\n<p>SO, AT LEAST FOR NOW, HEALTH OFFICIALS RECOMMEND: MODERATION, MODERATION, MODERATION.</p>\n<p>Dr. Francesco Branca/Director, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO</p>\n<p>“Our results do not indicate occasional consumption should pose a risk to most consumers.”</p>\n<p>AMERICAN BEVERAGE.....A GROUP THAT REPRESENTS THE NON-ALCOHOLIC DRINK INDUSTRY....</p>\n<p>SAID IN A STATEMENT QUOTE: “THE FACT THAT FOOD SAFETY AGENCIES WORLDWIDE, INCLUDING THE FDA, CONTINUE TO FIND ASPARTAME SAFE MAKES US CONFIDENT IN THE SAFETY OF OUR PRODUCTS.”</p>\n<p>Dr. Francesco Branca/Director, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Safety, WHO</p>\n<p>“The recommendation that WHO made was to moderate both the consumption of free sugars and the consumption of sweeteners.” </p>\n<p>I'M JOHN LORINC REPORTING.</p>\n<p><b>--TAG--</b></p>\n<p>THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION GAVE THE NOD TO ASPARTAME USE IN SOME FOODS AND DRINKS IN 1974....BUT THAT WAS SUSPENDED FOR A FEW YEARS DUE TO POTENTIAL HEALTH CONCERNS.</p>\n<p>IN 19-83 THE F-D-A SET AN ASPARTAME GUIDELINE AT 50-MILLIGRAMS PER KILOGRAM OF A PERSON'S WEIGHT.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>NATIONAL US HEALTH FOODS DRINKS WHO FDA CANCER</p>\n<p></p>
ASPARTAME NEWS CONFERENCE
DR. JOHN OLNEY OF THE COMMUNITY NUTRITION INSTITUTE, FORMER SENATOR METZENBAUM WITH CONSUMER FEDERATION ANT OTHERS HOLD A COUNTER NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE SAFETY OF NUTRASWEET / ASPARTAME.
WHY SUGAR SUBSTITUTES CAN CONTRIBUTE TO WEIGHT GAIN
<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>:09-:14</p>\n<p>Dr. Sanjay Gupta</p>\n<p>CNN Chief Medical Correspondent</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p>THOUGH THE FDA SAYS APPROVED SUGAR SUBSTITUTES ARE SAFE IN MODERATION, RECENT HEADLINES HAVE RAISED CONCERNS OVER THEIR LINKS TO POSSIBLE HEALTH CONDITIONS. </p>\n<p>DR. GUPTA ANSWERS ONE VIEWER’S QUESTION ABOUT ZERO-CALORIE SWEETENERS AND WEIGHT GAIN IN THIS WEEK’S, “DR. SANJAY GUPTA ON CALL.”</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Chief Medical Correspondent: This week, we asked our audience what questions they had specifically about sugar substitutes. Many of you had questions. Alex in Chicago wrote this. You regularly hear people say that people who use zero calorie sweeteners instead of sugar tend to gain more weight than those who just use sugar. This is especially true of diet soda. Is that true? If it is, why is that? Is it psychological? Let me explain this, 2023 study by the researchers at the University of Minnesota, interesting study. They followed 3000 men and women over 20 years. So a really long term study and they found that the long term use of things like saccharin and aspartame and diet drinks were associated with increased levels of fat. This visceral fat that's stored in the body. Now again, this may seem counterintuitive but sugar substitutes can actually play tricks on the brain. Think of it like this. Even though you just ate something sweet, the sugar substitute, you haven't gotten the associated calories with that. So as a result, you may start to forage for those calories. It's why some people drink diet sodas throughout the day. But then start to go scavenging for ice cream late at night. Because these sugar substitutes are often low to zero calories, our bodies aren't quite satisfied in the same way that the same amount of calorie dense sugar can satisfy. And all of that, sadly, Alex can lead to overeating and gaining weight.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>SUGAR SWEETENERS HEALTH WEIGHT</p>\n<p></p>
Aspartame, a sweetener can be carcinogenic
SJT - ASPARTAME STUDY
FILE: TAXES ON SUGARY DRINKS CUT SALES BY 33%
<p>https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/health/taxing-sugar-sweetened-drinks-wellness/index.html</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Raising the price of sugar-sweetened sodas, coffees, teas and energy, sports and fruit drinks by an average of 31% reduced consumer purchases of those drinks by a third, according to a new analysis of restrictions implemented in five US cities.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>GettyImages-477315062.jpg</p>\n<p>FDA proposes ban on potentially harmful ingredient found in some sodas</p>\n<p>“What we measured is how consumers change their consumption in response to price changes,” said study author Scott Kaplan, an assistant professor of economics at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“For every 1% increase in price, we found a 1% decrease in purchases of these products,” Kaplan said. “The decrease in consumer purchases occurred almost immediately after the taxes were put in place and stayed that way over the next three years of the study.”</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>William Dermody, vice president of media and public affairs for the American Beverage Association, a representative for the sugar-sweetened and diet beverage industry, told CNN via email that such taxes are “unproductive” and hurt consumers, small business and their employees.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“The beverage industry’s strategy of offering consumers more choices with less sugar, smaller portion sizes and clear calorie information is working – today nearly 60% of all beverages sold have zero sugar and the calories that people get from beverages has decreased to its lowest level in decades,” Dermody said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Health impact of sugary drinks</p>\n<p>Many sugar-sweetened beverages are packed with calories, have little to no nutritional value and contribute to chronic diseases, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity and stroke, studies have found. Even one serving daily of a sugary soft drink was associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a 2020 study.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Erythritol is added to many low-carb and keto products and low-calorie sweeteners.</p>\n<p>Erythritol, an ingredient in stevia, linked to heart attack and stroke, study finds</p>\n<p>No or low-calorie diet drinks have also been linked to chronic disease, while both sugary and artificially sweetened beverages have been shown to increase the risk of dying early from several causes.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>The new study did not examine the health impact of reducing sales of sugary drinks, but an earlier one by Tufts University researchers did, Kaplan said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>That study, published in 2019, found that a 15% to 20% reduction “in consumption of sugary beverages, if expanded nationally, would reduce the health care costs over the average American life span by $270 per person, or $45 billion in total,” Kaplan said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>It’s likely that a 33% reduction in consumer purchases would have a similar impact on health care costs, said Tufts researcher Parke Wilde, lead author of the 2019 study.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“Based on the large, estimated impacts on beverage purchases in this study, it is likely that these beverage taxes reduced obesity, heart disease, and deaths in the 5 cities,” said Wilde, a professor in Tuft’s Friedman School of Nutrition and Science Policy in Boston.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“The main contribution of this new study is the improved estimate of price effects. If this study had existed when we did our research, I would have cited it,” Wilde said in an email. “It seems to me the best estimate of price effects I have seen.”</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Even <a href=" https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/health/sugary-drinks-cardiovascular-disease-wellness/index.html">one serving</a> daily of a sugary soft drink was associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a 2020 study.</p>\n<p>Even one serving daily of a sugary soft drink was associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a 2020 study.</p>\n<p>tongpatong/iStockphoto/Getty Images</p>\n<p>The fight against sugar-sweetened drinks</p>\n<p>Nine US jurisdictions and more than 50 countries have implemented some form of consumer tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, typically by taxing distributors who then pass that cost along to consumers, Kaplan said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>dementia ultraprocessed food wellness STOCK</p>\n<p>Dementia risk may increase if you’re eating these foods, study says</p>\n<p>Some US cities have enacted sales taxes on sugary beverages at checkout, typically at the rate of 1% to 2%, Kaplan said. Other cities tax those drinks by the ounce, which raises the overall price of the product even more.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“Maybe you spend $1 on a 12-ounce can of soda,” he said. “If it’s a 2 cent per ounce tax, that’s an additional 24 cents on your dollar.”</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Sales taxes, however, do not affect the consumer pocketbook to the same extent. For example,</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Washington, DC, puts an 8% sales tax on sugar-sweetened beverages, 2% above the standard 6% sales tax. Now that same can of soda costs 2 cents more, instead of an additional 24 cents under the per ounce tax.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“So, the per ounce tax is much bigger, and we think of those as sort of being the type of taxes that are actually having the potential to drive bigger impacts,” Kaplan said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Five cities studied</p>\n<p>The analysis, published Friday in JAMA Health Forum, looked at per ounce tax plans by ZIP code in Boulder, Colorado; Oakland, California; Philadelphia; Seattle; and San Francisco.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“We only looked at sugar-sweetened beverages that are sold in retail or convenience stores. Mass merchandise stores, supermarkets, convenience stores and drugstores made up our sample,” Kaplan said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>02 aspartame sweetener STOCK RESTRICTED</p>\n<p>WHO declares widely used sweetener aspartame a possible cancer cause, but intake guidelines stay the same</p>\n<p>The impact on sales of sugar-sweetened beverages in restaurants and of sales taxes on artificially sweetened drinks were not part of the study, he said. However, one of the cities studied, Philadelphia, does tax diet drinks with great success, Kaplan said. Because the taxes are more “broadly encompassing, including both regular and artificially sugar-sweetened beverages,” other studies have found Philly’s success rate at reducing consumer consumption to be larger than many other cities, he added.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Despite the impact of sugar taxes found by this study and others, additional cities may have a difficult time enacting such public health programs in the future, Kaplan said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“The last tax that we looked at was implemented in January 2018. And you might ask, ‘Well, why haven’t there been any more?’ And that’s because states like California and Washington have passed bills to basically preempt cities from doing so,” Kaplan said.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>“If states are going to preempt these taxes from going into place at the city level, then we might consider ways for these taxes to be implemented at a larger geographic level, potentially even at a federal level.”</p>\n<p><b>--</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>File</p>\n<p><b>--VIDEO SHOWS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--VO SCRIPT</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SOT</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--TAG</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--MUSIC INFO---</b></p>\n<p></p>
ASPARTAME NEWS CONFERENCE
THE CALORIE COUNCIL, GROCREY MANUFACTURES OF AMERICA, NATIONAL FOOD PROCESSORS, NATIONAL SOFT DRINK ASSOCIATION AND THE NUTRASWEET KELCO COMPANY HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE TO DISCUSS THE SAFETY OF ASPARTAME AND TO RESPOND TO PAPER BY JOHN OLNEY, MD AND COLLEAGUES THET USES EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA TO SUGGEST AN ALLEGED LINK BETWEEN ASPARTAME AND BRAIN TUMORS.