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Old 03-09-2012, 09:15 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by woj View Post
The studies they do on rats are usually pretty short term, 3 months perhaps. So 3 months of drinking 1000 cans/day = 90,000 cans = get cancer. So while 1000 per day is unrealistic, if you stretch it out over someones lifetime, it works out to perhaps 10 cans per day, which is actually pretty realistic number.

It's nothing to panic about, but avoiding substances that increase chance of getting cancer is probably a good idea.
This is just Coke and Pepsi. How many more foods with the same additives would count? Dr Peppers maybe.

Then with all the other food additives from other products added as well.

How many Americans stop eating Angus Beef when we had the scare about Jacobs Disease?
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