Publication Date:
1978-03-03
Description:
The risk of a person getting cancer from ingesting saccharin is compared with the risk of ingesting additional calories which cause excess body weight. It is found that, for a person who is 10% overweight, the risk of ingesting one diet soft drink, which would cause a decrease in life expectancy of 9 seconds, is approximately equal to the risk of ingesting one additional kilocalorie; that is, if ingesting a diet drink inhibits ingestion of more than 1 kilocalorie, its benefits exceed its risks.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cohen, B L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1978 Mar 3;199(4332):983.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/622580" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
*Diet
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*Energy Intake
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Humans
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Neoplasms/*chemically induced
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Obesity/*etiology
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Risk
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Saccharin/*adverse effects
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
