- A three year Italian study on Aspartame in rats revealed
a connection between the artifical sweetner and leukemia, lymphoma and
malignant brain tumors. It conclusively * proved * that aspartame is a
carcinogen, say the study's authors.
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- A famous neurosurgeon calls for the complete removal
of aspartame-laden products from all schools. These claims completely refute
and destroy those of Aspartame manufacturers. -- Betty Martini
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- ATLANTA (PRWEB) -- 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.
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- 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.
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- Rats are deemed appropriate subjects for testing aspartame
on humans because both humans and rats metabolize the methyl ester in aspartame
into methyl alcohol, then formaldehyde then formic acid - all deadly poisons.
The carcinogenicity of substances in rats and mice is a consistent predictor
of cancer risk in humans exposed to those substances.
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- The study commenced with 8 week old rats and continued
until the last one died at 159 weeks. Their physical status and behavior
were examined three times daily and detailed records of their growth were
kept. Every two weeks each of the 3,600 rats were "clinically examined
for gross changes." As each rat died, a complete autopsy was performed.
Organs, tissues and bones were preserved for further study.
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- "In our experimental conditions, it has been demonstrated
that APM [aspartame] causes a dose-related statistically significant increase
in lymphomas and leukemias in females at dose levels very near those to
which humans can be exposed," the authors wrote in their conclusion.
The number of cancers that developed in rats given zero aspartame was zero.
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- Increases of lymphomas and leukemias at the lowest exposure
level was 62 percent and "an increase in the incidence of these types
of neoplasias was also observed in males exposed to the highest dose,"
as stated in the study.
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- Neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, MD, one of the world's
leading authorities on aspartame neurotoxicity, extensively reviewed the
Soffritti report. "This study confirmed the previous study by Dr.
Trocho and co-workers (1998), which also found the formaldehyde breakdown
product of aspartame to be damaging to cellular DNA and that this damage
was cumulative. The type of damage was a duplicate of that associated with
cancers. These two studies strongly indicate that drinking a single diet
cola sweetened with aspartame every day could significantly increase one's
risk of developing a lymphoma or leukemia," Blaylock said.
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- "This study should terrify mothers and all those
consuming aspartame sweetened products," he continued. "This
was a carefully done study which clearly demonstrated a statistically significant
increase in several types of lymphomas and leukemias in rats. Both of these
malignancies have increased significantly in this country since the widespread
use of aspartame."
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- "They also found an increased incidence of malignant
brain tumors, even though it was not statistically significant. This does
not mean there is no association to brain tumors, since ONLY the animals
exposed to aspartame developed the tumors. With children and pregnant women
drinking the largest amount of diet colas, this puts their children at
the greatest risk of developing one of these horrible diseases. Their found
that even lower doses of aspartame could cause these malignancies, yet,
the higher the dose, the more cancers that were seen," said Blaylock.
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- "Since aspartame can increase obesity and may even
cause the metabolic syndrome that affects 48 million Americans, there is
no reason to ever consume this product. At the least, it should be immediately
banned from all schools," said Blaylock.
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- Aspartame was approved for use in dry goods in 1981 under
extremely controversial circumstances. 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. The
FDA itself has published a list of 92 potentially adverse reactions to
aspartame that includes weight gain, blindness, chronic headaches, insanity
and death.
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- Soffritti et al conducted this study because they wanted
to determine whether or not the ADI for aspartame (50 and 40 milligrams
per kilogram of body weight per day in the U.S. and Europe respectively)
was an appropriate limit. Their report concludes with these words: "Results
of our study call for urgent reexamination of permissible exposure level
of aspartame in both food and beverages, especially to protect children."
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- Here comes the Whopper. Makers and sellers of aspartame
tried to rebut this impeccable European research saying: "With billions
of man-years of safe use, there is no indication of an association between
aspartame and cancer in humans."
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