What is "saccharin"?

What is "saccharin"?

Susan Silberstein & Marilyn Joyce (Health and Nutrition Educator & Heath Counselor) gives expert video advice on: Is honey a healthy sweetener?; Are there healthy substitutes for refined sugar? and more...

Saccharin is an artificial sweetener that's being used for a long time as a substitute for sugar as well as aspartame and other things that we've recently invented that have negative repercussions. Saccharin has actually been attributed to bladder cancer. And I saw this full on in my own family because both my father and my uncle were avid users of saccharin and both of them developed bladder cancer in their life, that's what killed them. And I really am strongly in opposition to saccharin, it is labeled as hazardous to your health because it has been proven to be hazardous to your health. So, you take it at your own risk. Why would anybody ingest something that has on the label “Hazardous to your health”?