Aspartame is linked to Leukemia, new research shows
If you are trying to lose weight by using "diet" or "light" foods and drinks using artificial sweeteners, you must read results of new comprehensive study about the most common artificial sweetener "aspartame."
As few as one diet soda daily may increase the risk for leukemia in men and women, and for multiple myeloma (by 102%) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men, according to new results from the longest-ever running study on Aspartame as a carcinogen in humans. For this study, researchers prospectively analyzed data from the Nurses' Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study for a 22-year period. A total of 77,218 women and 47,810 men were included in the analysis, for a total of 2,278,396 person-years of data.
This is the most comprehensive, long-term study ever completed on this topic, so it holds more weight than other past studies which appeared to show no risk. And disturbingly, it may also open the door for further similar findings on other cancers in future studies.
Allegations of conflicts of interest has marred the FDA's approval of aspartame for years. Among aspartame's byproducts are phenylalanine and methanol, both harmful substances. Headaches are the most common symptom reported by consumers indicating neurological impact. The artificial sweetener Aspartame was first synthesized in 1965. The initial approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was rescinded in 1975 due to problems with testing programs, but then reinstated after additional testing and major lobbying efforts by Donald Rumsfeld (former U.S. Secretary of Defense and an architect of Iraq invasion). When Searle was absorbed by Monsanto in 1985, Donald Rumsfeld reportedly received a $12 million bonus, a large amount in those days.
Under the trade names Equal, NutraSweet, and Canderel, aspartame is an ingredient in approximately 6,000 foods and beverages sold worldwide, from diet soft drinks, to cereals, chewing gum, desserts, juices, vitamin supplements, pharmaceutical drugs and diet yogurts. The market for aspartame is estimated at 15 million kilograms.
There is now more reason than ever to completely avoid aspartame in our daily diet. For those who are tempted to go back to sugary sodas as a "healthy" alternative, this study had a surprise finding: men consuming one or more sugar-sweetened sodas daily saw a 66 percent increase in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (even worse than for diet soda). Perhaps the healthiest soda is NO SODA AT ALL.
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