• The artificial sweetener aspartame, contained in products like Nutrasweet©, Equal© and many diet colas, causes a wide variety of ailments.

• Bananas from Costa Rica are infected with 'flesh-eating' bacteria that cause necrotizing fasciitis.

• Anti-perspirants cause breast cancer by preventing the lymph system from purging toxins through sweating.

• Canola oil is harmful to your health.

• Packages supposedly from the 'Klingerman Foundation' contain a deadly virus that causes dysentery.

• A young woman becomes an unwitting incubator for 'mud shrimp' after sexual experimentation with a lobster.

• Paget's disease is a rare type of breast cancer.

• Microwaving food in plastic containers or wrapped in plastic cling wrap releases harmful chemicals into the food.

• An over-the-counter medication, phenylpropanolamine (PPA), commonly used in diet and cold medicines has been recalled by the Food and Drug Administration.

• Villains are using a drug called 'Progesterex' to render their victims helpless and then rape them. Progesterex also has the side effect of sterilizing the victims.

• You can catch a fatal disease by drinking from soda cans that have been contaminated with rat urine.

• Waterproof sunscreen can make you go blind.

• Some tampons contain asbestos, toxic dioxins and other harmful substances.

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