Aspartame (NutraSweet) Linked To Leukemia and Lymphomas!

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Aspartame Linked To Leukemia And Lymphoma In New Landmark Human Study

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.

22 Years And Over Two Million Person-Years

A total of 2,278,396 person-years of data derived from 77,218 women and 47,810 men over a 22-year is the most thorough and awesomely sheer amount of data to ever been utilized in a study of aspartame (NutraSweet).  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 Single Diet Soda A Day Increases Leukemia • Multiple Myeloma • 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% higher leukemia risk in men and women (pooled analysis) 
• 102% higher multiple myeloma risk. 
• 31% higher non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk

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.

Confirms Previous 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. The devastation it inflicts on our immune systems should make it a no-brainer! 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).

 The take away from this study....Sodas Kill People!

Sources for this article include:
http://www.naturalnews.com/037772_aspartame_leukemia_lymphoma.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23097267
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16507461
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17805418