Chemical found in cola causes cancer. Do you drink soda?
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(CBS News) Can drinking soda cause cancer? A report yesterday from the U.S. consumer watchdog The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) said popular sodas contain high levels of a chemical that's used to give cola its caramel coloring - and that chemical could raise a soda-drinkers' cancer risk.
Today U.S. regulators downplayed the report, telling the public that they can continue to drink soda without fearing this ingredient. According to Reuters, the regulators claim that contrary to the public-interest group report, the Ingredient found in cola products from PepsiCo Inc., Coca-Cola Co. and other companies pose no cancerous health risks.
In yesterday's report, the consumer watchdog found Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc's Dr. Pepper and Whole Foods' 365 Cola contained unsafe levels of the coloring Ingredient, 4-methylimidazole or 4-MI. The group estimates the amount of 4-MI in the Coke and Pepsi products tested is causing about 15,000 cancers among the U.S. population.
Read More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57391560-10391704/chem...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/06/soda-cancer_n_132446...
Top Opinion
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BUCCANEER~POTL~PWCM~JLA 2012/03/07 18:45:43
But I don't remember a day when I drank "1000 cans of Cokes", lol and I think I would remember a day like that.
Because that's what it would take to get cancer from that chemical in coke, to drink 1000 cans of coke a day for several years.
Hmmmmm, and here I didn't think a person could last two days if they drank 1000 cans of coke in 24 hours, and not because of cancer killing them, but drinking 1000 bottles of water would kill anyone I would think, because their body could not hold all that liquid !
I bet if you drank, or ate 1000 of anything, it would kill you from plugging up your system.
But if you don't believe me try eating 500 twinkies and washing them down with 500 cans of coke, see what happens, lol!!!!