Aspartame is linked to leukemia and lymphoma in new landmark study on humans
(NaturalNews) As few as one diet soda daily may increase the risk for leukemia in men and women, and for multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men, according to new results from the longest-ever running study on aspartame as a carcinogen in humans. Importantly, 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.
The most thorough study yet on aspartame – Over two million person-years
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. Apart from sheer size, what makes this study superior to other past studies is the thoroughness with which aspartame intake was assessed. Every two years, participants were given a detailed dietary questionnaire, and their diets were reassessed every four years. Previous studies which found no link to cancer only ever assessed participants’ aspartame intake at one point in time, which could be a major weakness affecting their accuracy.
One diet soda a day increases leukemia, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphomas
The combined results of this new study showed that just one 12-fl oz. can (355 ml) of diet soda daily leads to:
- 42 percent higher leukemia risk in men and women (pooled analysis) - 102 percent higher multiple myeloma risk (in men only) - 31 percent higher non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk (in men only)
These results were based on multi-variable relative risk models, all in comparison to participants who drank no diet soda. It is unknown why only men drinking higher amounts of diet soda showed increased risk for multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Note that diet soda is the largest dietary source of aspartame(by far) in the U.S. Every year, Americans consume about 5,250 tons of aspartame in total, of which about 86 percent (4,500 tons) is found in diet sodas.
Confirmation of previous high quality research on animals
This new study shows the importance of the quality of research. Most of the past studies showing no link between aspartame and cancer have been criticized for being too short in duration and too inaccurate in assessing long-term aspartame intake. This new study solves both of those issues. The fact that it also shows a positive link to cancer should come as no surprise, because a previous best-in-class research study done on animals (900 rats over their entire natural lifetimes) showed strikingly similar results back in 2006: aspartame significantly increased the risk for lymphomas and leukemia in both males and females. More worrying is the follow on mega-study, which started aspartame exposure of the rats at the fetal stage. Increased lymphoma and leukemia risks were confirmed, and this time the female rats also showed significantly increased breast (mammary) cancer rates. This raises a critical question: will future, high-quality studies uncover links to the other cancers in which aspartame has been implicated (brain, breast, prostate, etc.)?
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.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23097267 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16507461 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17805418
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Oct 31, 2012 @ 20:01:53
If you're going to drink fizzy drinks, don't drink DIET. Aspartame = poison. Check it out for yourself.
Dec 29, 2012 @ 00:57:07
Keep fighting the good fight Kris
Jan 10, 2013 @ 20:18:40
And sugar = diabetes. 25.8 million children and adults in the United States—8.3% of the population—have diabetes.
Jan 24, 2013 @ 15:28:16
Nonsense.
Feb 28, 2013 @ 11:17:29
I have a hard time believing that regular unprocessed sugar used in moderation causes diabetes. I am more inclined to believe it's the refinement process.
Feb 28, 2013 @ 12:50:54
Nic Steele, I am one of those 25.8 million, with diabetes. I battle between sugar and artificial sweetener, and have to say, I am, more and more, turning to sugar and higher insulin dosage and more frequent glucose monitoring, avoiding artificial sweeteners. It is a fine line, but basically, diabetics were promised "freedom!!!" with the advent of diet sodas and we thought we could be almost normal. I fear we are not free, instead, addicted to something just as deadly as the sugar we are taught to avoid. It is a no win, but it is our lot. Take comfort in knowing that beer has neither aspartame nor sugar (carbs, yes, glucose, fructose or sucrose, no.)
Oct 31, 2012 @ 23:17:52
So I suppose gum with Aspartame is equally as bad. True?
Nov 01, 2012 @ 04:15:48
true.
Jan 24, 2013 @ 15:28:48
True, in that there is no convincing evidence that aspartame is bad for you.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/are-artificial-sweeteners-safe/
Oct 31, 2012 @ 23:49:25
Great , I drink regular Pepsi.. Actually Retro Pepsi. Not fructose Pepsi. Real sugar. I wonder if this is included?
Jan 10, 2013 @ 01:09:31
why don't you all just drink fresh fruit juice.. and water.. why drink chemicals? I just don't get it! fill your body with nutrition and stop looking at calories I say…….. why do you think 50% of people are now getting cancer? you are actually lucky if you do not get cancer.. so try to eat and drink as your body intended, as natural as possible…
Nov 01, 2012 @ 10:19:57
Is there a petition against it yet?
Jan 09, 2013 @ 21:56:51
No. Because there's no real evidence to show that it causes cancer. Read the studies and ignore this fear-mongering.
Jan 10, 2013 @ 01:28:49
"CONCLUSION: Although our findings preserve the possibility of a detrimental effect of a constituent of diet soda, such as aspartame, on select cancers, the inconsistent sex effects and occurrence of an apparent cancer risk in individuals who consume regular soda do not permit the ruling out of chance as an explanation."
Jan 10, 2013 @ 20:20:31
Right? how could they come to summarize this into a title saying that it *IS* linked! Very misleading!
Nov 01, 2012 @ 10:24:00
Studying both nutrition AND iridology i have been looking at this….
Nov 02, 2012 @ 00:50:45
this is thew cra in pepsi max , huh ? :/
Nov 02, 2012 @ 00:59:54
yep, also in chewing gum as well. My studies have taught me that it's also linked to severe depression, and other mental health issues, and is really bad for people with AIDS
Nov 04, 2012 @ 00:01:58
fook. bad stuff hey. Thx for message… I so appreciate it… xxx
Jan 10, 2013 @ 12:16:42
You have a degree in baloney.
Nov 01, 2012 @ 21:23:51
Look at the sources for that article. To continue to run "articles" from Natural News is NOT science at all. It is a stroking of ego masquerading as science. He took 1 study about insanely large amounts of sweetener fed to rats (which was inconclusive), one study about smaller amounts fed to rats (which has yet to be repeated and has been disproven a few times since) and a newer study that afforded the possibility but was ultimately inconclusive about it.
It is NOT science. Apertame may very well be crap and cause all sorts of nastiness, but that has yet to proven. Therefore, NOT science. the real reason not to drink soda pop is because it is a load of seriously empty calories. Educate yourself.
Nov 01, 2012 @ 23:22:01
you pointy-headed know-it-all. try researching further before blowing off every article from Natural News.
Nov 02, 2012 @ 02:24:29
Show me how this article is based in science.
Nov 15, 2012 @ 18:04:51
My nephew, age 3 was having seizures once a month for 3 months. We realized he had drank diet coke before the first seizure. He had eaten Jello before the second occurrence. Once we realized the common denominator he does not consume anything with aspartame in it and he has gone a year without any seizures. This is a more clear cut case of a bad reaction to the synthetic sweetener.
Nov 15, 2012 @ 20:58:52
Cris Legato Orr Well it is based on science, that is well executed studies that did not overstate or misinterpret their results. This article, however, abuses that research.
Nov 19, 2012 @ 04:32:05
Your argument and logic sounds surpisingly similer to the Tobacco Lobby!
Jan 10, 2013 @ 20:17:08
Here is a quote from the most recent study this article both referred to and linked to. "the inconsistent sex effects and occurrence of an apparent cancer risk in individuals who consume regular soda do not permit the ruling out of chance as an explanation."
Jan 20, 2013 @ 09:49:51
that s not the only study…
Jan 24, 2013 @ 15:31:56
Hunter GodParticles Battisto Which is what they call anectdotal evidence. I'm not at all shocked to hear that individuals have issues with aspartame. They have a warning on every bottle of diet soda about it. But that doesn't make it unsafe for the many other people who are more concerned about the REAL threat of diabetes.
Feb 02, 2013 @ 09:20:12
nnatural news is full of shit, stop fucking posting shit from there, I ignored the first article from there but now I have to unlike this page , I thought it was about science
Feb 02, 2013 @ 09:23:36
CONCLUSION:
Although our findings preserve the possibility of a detrimental effect of a constituent of diet soda, such as aspartame, on select cancers, the inconsistent sex effects and occurrence of an apparent cancer risk in individuals who consume regular soda do not permit the ruling out of chance as an explanation.
Feb 02, 2013 @ 09:51:35
Hunter GodParticles Battisto , he is probably part of the small fraction of people who aspartame is really bad for, they have an allergic reaction and it can kill
Feb 28, 2013 @ 11:13:39
How about the bad parenting decision to give your 3 year old a caffeinated beverage?
Feb 28, 2013 @ 12:40:53
Cris, did you read the FIRST 75% of the article? It was on HUMANS over a 22 year period of time involving almost 100,000 people. THIS WAS NOT THE RAT STUDY!!!! The bottom portion merely correlated the previous RAT STUDY to the CURRENT HUMAN study, showing that the rat study SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED because it was rats, young, high dosages, etc. The article is ALL about human study. Read carefully, my friend, before you pontificate. 2 MILLION human/years (that's a lot, by the way… just sayin') of research correlating HUMAN cancers in HUMANS. I fear you are mistaken, this IS SCIENCE. Just because you don't like it, doesn't make it invalid.
Feb 28, 2013 @ 18:06:53
Aspartame is in the category of excitotoxins.There is substantial researched evidence to prove it is something that anyone should not ingest if one wants to prevent damage to one's health. An outstanding book by Dr. Russell L. Blaylock, "EXCITOTOXNS the taste that kills",where he clearly presents a body evidence proving the negative consequences of using not only aspartame but other excitotoxins such as MSG that under various names in the food supply. Highly recommended
Mar 02, 2013 @ 00:25:12
Why is a 3 year old drinking pop, diet or otherwise!!!? His parents need to be educated!!! Bet he's modeling his parents!!
Mar 17, 2013 @ 03:06:00
Sounds sounds like someone doesn't want to give up their diet soda.
Mar 17, 2013 @ 03:06:00
Sounds sounds like someone doesn't want to give up their diet soda.
Apr 12, 2013 @ 02:09:43
this is the great problem of soft drinks:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRQdDAXy7Mw
Nov 04, 2012 @ 17:36:52
If you need to drink soft drink/soda drink the cane sugar stuff and never the diet crap,as the article informs us.
Nov 15, 2012 @ 03:51:28
Developed and marketed by Donald Rumsfeld's companies
Feb 28, 2013 @ 18:20:30
part of codex alimentarius?
Nov 15, 2012 @ 07:37:11
Personally, I stay away from regular consumption of soft drinks, be they diet or not – they are all unhealthy, for a lot more reasons than sugar vs. alternative sweeteners.
Nov 15, 2012 @ 12:01:51
It doesnt take a scientist to know that aspartame is a petroleum bi-product. Petroleum is a carcinogen, plain and simple. Of course, to an image obsesssed society, a product that could help weight loss was the greatest thing in the world, so the oil industry got richer off it.
Jan 24, 2013 @ 02:41:42
Apparently it does. Aspartame is not a petroleum bi-product, it's actually derived from a genetically modified e coli strain. You're probably thinking a Saccharin.
Jan 31, 2013 @ 14:41:24
Man, the name of this website seems to be wrong. It ought to be "bunch of clueness fools and their self-serving internet-derived baseless non-scientific conclusions academy"
Nov 19, 2012 @ 16:49:10
I have even switched to using only honey in my coder n tea now.
Jan 10, 2013 @ 01:10:06
why don't you all just drink fresh fruit juice.. and water.. why drink chemicals? I just don't get it! fill your body with nutrition and stop looking at calories I say…….. why do you think 50% of people are now getting cancer? you are actually lucky if you do not get cancer.. so try to eat and drink as your body intended, as natural as possible…
Jan 10, 2013 @ 12:15:47
Yeah cause fruit juice is so natural. I often sit down and eat 20 oranges.
Jan 24, 2013 @ 15:25:50
http://boingboing.net/2009/03/02/secrets-of-orange-ju.html
Jan 18, 2013 @ 22:45:23
CAndace Pert, a leading Neuro-psycho immunologist states that these things are neuro toxins… or excito toxins…they kill off good cells, but they also are bad for the body, therefore the cells surround the offender and cause it to be in situ(I hope I remembered that right) Read her book and she will tell you all about it! The name of the book is "What we need to know to feel G(O)OD" Great book!
Jan 24, 2013 @ 15:27:35
This is nothing but fear-mongering from people with an axe to grind about all fake sugars. You're better off avoiding soddas altogether than believing this hogwash. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/are-artificial-sweeteners-safe/
Jan 27, 2013 @ 12:04:18
michael you need to wake up buddy…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzT6X3_Bg9o&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Jan 27, 2013 @ 19:56:56
How did I know you'd be on the other side of this question?
Jan 24, 2013 @ 21:46:10
I am a type 1 diabetic, (child onset) that became evident at age 40+. In a word, I'm dying albeit slowly, but I AM dying. In reviewing this article I went to the sources and looked at the actual study results. The rats tested were given aspartame at a very early age and in large doses. It does APPEAR to have an effect on the occurrence of some specific maladies. That said, I'm still dying, yes really, I am an avid user of aspartame simply because the sugar/diabetes will kill me faster and more effectively than this stuff, there is NO doubt that sodas are bad but I don't drink them, I use aspartame in my coffee and tea along with honey.
My point is this, I believe in an after-life, one free of the evils and corruption of this world, we are ALL dying from the day we are born and well honestly I don't want to live forever, I am a happy individual, love my life, wife/family and career. I prefer to live my life as I choose, I do not pander to fear mongering statistical manipulation, I have better things to do… Statistically I STILL have a better chance of dying in a car accident, crossing the street, being murdered, choking on food or being killed by an incompetent doctor, (I was misdiagnosed for 6 yrs with my diabetes by doctors who didn't bother to give me a simple test to determine I had type 1 versus type 2 diabetes)…. Already in my life I have escaped death at least 6 times so I'm going to go back out there and enjoy my life, since today could well be my last I don't want to miss a thing and when my time comes I'm going to move on with NO REGRETS satisfied that I've done the best I can and hopefully smiled, loved and had a positive influence on this world.
Jan 25, 2013 @ 01:38:22
thats sooo great . life is short im happy you are living it sincerely faye.
Feb 28, 2013 @ 18:13:16
Mark, Have you considered using STEVIA, My recommended brand is KAL which does not have an adverse taste. As for the bigger issue of your diabetes, my mother died of complications to her diabetic condition and was taking the nutrisweet type sweeteners and it affected her nervous system in a damaging and sad way. Dr Gabriel Cousens from the Tree of Life Center, Patagonia AZ did a beautiful doc on how to be free of diabetes for good, CALLED "SIMPLY RAW", you owe it to yourself to at least consider the option for real to heal this condition by watching this documentary…..
. If there is life there is HOPE…..
Feb 02, 2013 @ 14:59:33
will not drink pop any time soon.
Feb 03, 2013 @ 14:29:38
One of the criticism of most of the animal studies is that they fed the aspartamine to animals in powder form. When it was fed to rats in liquid form the number of cancers dramatically increased. Liquid form is the way it is always taken in the human population… suggesting yet again that the devil is in the detail… or that you can design a study not to prove anything if you want to.
Feb 27, 2013 @ 22:20:25
I try to eat as healthy as posible, but I clicked on the "sources" for this NaturalNews article and they say NOTHING like what the article says. I'm not saying aspartame is not harmful, but using these sources to prove your point when they actually don't is bad journalism and bad for your credibility. Please do some fact-checking before republishing rubbish like this.
Feb 28, 2013 @ 17:53:35
It also causes migraines, and a host of other issues. I agree that studies can be skewed, but there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that artificial sweeteners are harmful. Ignore it if you choose, but undoing the damage might not be possible with prolonged use. Choose wisely.
Feb 28, 2013 @ 18:05:53
DeeDee Shaw – you are so right in posting this – dangerous stuff!
Mar 17, 2013 @ 03:04:32
Poison, plan and simple.
Mar 17, 2013 @ 03:09:19
Thats maddening they still make the crap
Mar 17, 2013 @ 03:09:19
Thats maddening they still make the crap
Mar 17, 2013 @ 03:36:32
Its all part of their depopulation agenda.