Aspartame is sold under the brand names Nutra-Sweet and Equal and is found in such popular products as Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Diet Snapple and Sugar Free Kool-Aid. Hundreds of millions of people consume it worldwide.
Dr. Soffritti's seven-year study on aspartame concluded that aspartame may cause the dreaded "c" word: cancer.
The research found that the sweetener was associated with unusually high rates of lymphomas, leukemias and other cancers in rats that had been given doses of it starting at what would be equivalent to four to five 20-ounce bottles of diet soda a day for a 150-pound person. The study, which involved 1,900 laboratory rats and cost $1 million, was conducted at the European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences, a nonprofit organization that studies cancer-causing substances; Dr. Soffritti is its scientific director.
"For a chemical that is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, it should be absolutely safe," said Mr. Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition advocacy group. "There shouldn't be a cloud of doubt."
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I agree with that.
Personally, I stay far from aspartame for years.
I remember a time when I put aspartame in my coffee in order to avoid calorie. I am not calorie-oriented anymore.
My new philosophy is the closest to nature, the better.
New York Times Article - February 12, 2006
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