Carcinogen chemical 4-methylimidazole, part of caramel coloring, found in colas, popular soft drinks Toxic also aspartame, bad fructose syrup.

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Many popular cola drinks including Coke and Pepsi contain a caramel-coloring chemical that causes cancer in lab animals, warns a consumer advocacy group.

“Coke and Pepsi, with the acquiescence of the FDA, are needlessly exposing millions of Americans to a chemical that causes cancer,”

the chemical called 4-methylimidazole or 4-MIical 4-methylimidazole is part of the caramel coloring used in many of soda beverages

It estimated that the chemical in Coke and Pepsi products is causing about 15,000 cancers only in the US.

Coffee drinking not linked to chronic illnesses like cancer, heart disease, stroke.

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Coffee drinkers have no more risk of getting illnesses such as heart disease or cancer, and are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, according to a German study involving more than 40,000 people over nearly a decade.

The findings, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, came in the wake of many previous studies that produced conflicting results, with some tying coffee drinking to an increase in heart disease, cancer, stroke and more.

Study: Sleeping Pills Kill, Death 4x More Likely. Also 35% higher risk of cancer. Stay away from pills. Worse than smoking tobacco.

via healthland.time.com

Those who had sleep pills prescriptions were more than four times as likely to have died

What’s more, the researchers also documented a 35% increased risk of cancer among people taking sleeping pills, compared with the non-prescription group.

The risk of developing lymphoma, lung, colon or prostate cancer associated with sleeping pills was greater than the effect from smoking