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The authors of this book,
Don't Cross Your Eyes...They'll Get Stuck That Way!: And 75 Other Health Myths Debunked
by
Aaron Carroll MD and Rachel Vreeman MD,
state that despite a tremendous amount a research no link between artificial sweeteners and cancer can be found.
They say that for example, huge studies involving giving large doses of artificial sweeteners to monkeys for 17 years,
have been unable to determine a link between artificial sweeteners and cancer.
The authors say that this belief is deeply ingrained and many people become upset when they hear this, but they insist no link can be found.
However, at one time it was thought that saccharin caused cancer in mice, which caused saccharin to be pulled from shelves;
However it was later determined that those mice were prone to cancer anyway, and as a result saccharin is permitted again.
Other myths that are dressed in the book include:
- A fever of 104° F causes brain damage (not true, the actual value is higher)
- Don't cross your eyes so they don't get stuck (false)
- Dying your hair causes birth defects (false)
- Tilt your head back to stop a nosebleed (false and bad)
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