<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/53ffa6f8-4309-4396-a303-f0d401f2211d/C309A139-6B60-48AC-BFA5-A552474C0025/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://us.f315.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Search=&Idx=0&YY=60889&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=up&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b" href="http://us.f315.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Search=&Idx=0&YY=60889&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=up&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b" style="font-size: 11px;">us.f315.mail.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://us.f315.mail.yahoo.com/ym/ShowLetter?Search=&Idx=0&YY=60889&y5beta=yes&y5beta=yes&order=up&sort=date&pos=0&view=a&head=b"><DIV> Another Reason Sodas Cause Cancer</DIV><BR /><BR />Traces of the cancer-causing chemical benzene have<BR />been found in French and British soft drinks, at<BR />levels up to eight times those allowed in drinking<BR /><DIV>water. </DIV><BR />This follows on the heels of similar results for<BR /><DIV>drinks tested in the <SPAN id="lw_1172283076_0">United States</SPAN>.</DIV><BR />It has been known for 15 years that sodium benzoate, a<BR />preservative, can produce benzene when mixed with<BR />ascorbic acid (vitamin C). Many are concerned that the<BR />two chemicals are still being mixed together in many<BR /><DIV>drinks.</DIV><BR />Although no more than one part per billion of benzene<BR />is allowed in drinking water in Britain, there are no<BR />legal restrictions on the amount present in soft<BR /><DIV>drinks. </DIV><BR />Benzene is associated with leukemia and other cancers<BR />of the blood. It is generally found in pollutants such<BR /></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C309A139-6B60-48AC-BFA5-A552474C0025/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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