22 years of evidence what a soda will do!
Aspartame Associated with Increased Risk of Blood Cancers in Long-Term Human Study
November 07 2012
Story at-a-glance
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The
longest ever human aspartame study, spanning 22 years, found a clear
association between aspartame consumption and non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and
leukemia in men
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Leukemia was associated with diet soda intake in both sexes
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The
study was done out of Harvard, but after caving to pressure from
industry, a press release was issued that minimized the impact of the
study
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The
long-term nature of this study is crucial as one of the primary tricks
companies use to hide the toxicity of their products is short-term tests
of a few weeks. The longest study prior to this one was only four and
half months, far too short to reveal any toxicity from chronic exposure
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Another
trick, especially with aspartame, is to use animal models and not
humans. This is problematic because animals are protected from methanol
toxicity, unlike humans
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Another
recent study found that compared with sucrose (regular table sugar),
saccharin and aspartame caused greater weight gain in adult rats, and
this weight gain was unrelated to caloric intake
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