Originally published August 4 2005
Aspartame linked to lymphomas and leukemias, study shows
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A three-year study of rats given aspartame, conducted by the European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences Cancer Research Centre in Italy, supports previous research that the artificial sweetener significantly increases a person's risk of developing lymphomas and leukemias.
The European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences Cancer Research Centre in Bolonga, Italy, just released their three year study confirming the link between aspartame and lymphomas and leukemias.
The report by Morando Soffritti "Aspartame induces lymphomas and leukemias in rats" is in the European Journal of Oncology for July, 2005.
Dr. Soffritti and his team carefully set the conditions whereby genetically-uniform test rats were treated equally with the exception of being divided into groups given varying levels of the toxic chemical sweetener.
Every two weeks each of the 3,600 rats were "clinically examined for gross changes."
This does not mean there is no association to brain tumors, since ONLY the animals exposed to aspartame developed the tumors.
The artificial sweetener is currently found in more than 6,000 products-soft drinks, chewing gum, candy, desserts, table sweeteners and even pharmaceutical drugs and is responsible for more than 80 percent of consumer complaints filed with the FDA each year.
12. In l996 Dr. John Olney made world news over the Aspartame brain tumor association.
He says: "Nitrosation of aspartame or its diketopiperazine breakdown product could result in a nitrosourea-like molecule, and nitrosoureas are THE MOST EFFECTIVE AGENTS KNOWN for producing MALIGNANT BRAIN TUMORS in experimental animals.
Some nitrosoureas have broad spectrum carcinogenicity and can induce cancer in both the CNS and several other organs, but other members of this family, particularly alkylated nitrosoureas are organo-specific for the CNS.
If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, hangs around with other ducks and everybody in town calls it a duck it probably really is a duck!
They ignored the facts in their report and published industry propaganda.
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