Aspartame: Results of long term human study

Akimajuktuq
Akimajuktuq Posts: 3,037 Member
in Food and Nutrition
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/11/07/aspartame-causes-blood-cancer.aspx?e_cid=20121107_PRNL_art_1

[-] Sources and References

1 The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition December 2012 [Epub ahead of print]
2 NBC News Vitals October 24, 2012
3 Embargo Watch October 24, 2012
4 See ref 1
5 Sys-Con Media October 24, 2012
6 NPR.org October 24, 2012
7 Appetite October 19, 2012 [Epub ahead of print]
8 Behavioral Neuroscience 2008 Feb;122(1):161-73
9 Preventive Medicine 1986 Mar;15(2):195-202
10 Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine June 2010; 83(2): 101–108
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  • wellbert
    wellbert Posts: 3,924 Member
    you lost me at mercola.
  • craigineson
    craigineson Posts: 88 Member
    http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/11/07/aspartame-causes-blood-cancer.aspx?e_cid=20121107_PRNL_art_1

    [-] Sources and References

    1 The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition December 2012 [Epub ahead of print]
    2 NBC News Vitals October 24, 2012
    3 Embargo Watch October 24, 2012
    4 See ref 1
    5 Sys-Con Media October 24, 2012
    6 NPR.org October 24, 2012
    7 Appetite October 19, 2012 [Epub ahead of print]
    8 Behavioral Neuroscience 2008 Feb;122(1):161-73
    9 Preventive Medicine 1986 Mar;15(2):195-202
    10 Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine June 2010; 83(2): 101–108

    Thank you. You are most kind for linking this, sir.
  • baptiste565
    baptiste565 Posts: 590 Member
    pls stop with this misinformation. just please. its getting so old.
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    Instead of trusting dodgy websites like Mercola, read the abstract

    "Consumption of artificial sweetener- and sugar-containing soda and risk of lymphoma and leukemia in men and women.
    Schernhammer ES, Bertrand KA, Birmann BM, Sampson L, Willett WC, Feskanich D.

    Despite safety reports of the artificial sweetener aspartame, health-related concerns remain.

    OBJECTIVE:
    We prospectively evaluated whether the consumption of aspartame- and sugar-containing soda is associated with risk of hematopoetic cancers.

    DESIGN:
    We repeatedly assessed diet in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (HPFS). Over 22 y, we identified 1324 non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs), 285 multiple myelomas, and 339 leukemias. We calculated incidence RRs and 95% CIs by using Cox proportional hazards models.

    RESULTS:
    When the 2 cohorts were combined, there was no significant association between soda intake and risks of NHL and multiple myeloma. However, in men, ≥1 daily serving of diet soda increased risks of NHL (RR: 1.31; 95% CI: 1.01, 1.72) and multiple myeloma (RR: 2.02; 95% CI: 1.20, 3.40) in comparison with men who did not consume diet soda. We observed no increased risks of NHL and multiple myeloma in women. We also observed an unexpected elevated risk of NHL (RR: 1.66; 95% CI: 1.10, 2.51) with a higher consumption of regular, sugar-sweetened soda in men but not in women. In contrast, when sexes were analyzed separately with limited power, neither regular nor diet soda increased risk of leukemia but were associated with increased leukemia risk when data for men and women were combined (RR for consumption of ≥1 serving of diet soda/d when the 2 cohorts were pooled: 1.42; 95% CI: 1.00, 2.02).

    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."
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23097267
  • sbocha01
    sbocha01 Posts: 9 Member
    you lost me at mercola.
    Same.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    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."
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23097267
    So much for Mercola and his cherry-picking. "If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be disposed of"
  • SideSteel
    SideSteel Posts: 11,068 Member
    Mercolalolol
  • Cranktastic
    Cranktastic Posts: 1,517 Member
    no
  • Gimpdogg
    Gimpdogg Posts: 163 Member
    Everything gives you ****ing cancer! Get over it your all gonna die from something! Do not tip-toe through life just to arrive safely at death.
  • Gimpdogg
    Gimpdogg Posts: 163 Member
    O and for the record I switched to diet soda and have lost 104 pounds so suck that ****! Lol
  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
    you lost me at mercola.
    Same.
    Yep
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    you lost me at mercola.

    Yup.
  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    Mercola? For real?
  • Railr0aderTony
    Railr0aderTony Posts: 6,803 Member
    MustBeTrue.jpg
  • CyberEd312
    CyberEd312 Posts: 3,536 Member
    you lost me at mercola.
    Same.
    Yep

    Yeppers!! Lolz!! Ditto!!
  • AEFidgets
    AEFidgets Posts: 243
    Breathing polluted air causes cancer, eating most foods in excess causes cancer, Brokovich proved water causes cancer. Just lay down and die now........
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    Figures a paleo adherent would post this, ignorance begets ignorance
  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    Aspartame give you cancer, milk and cheese will kill you, bread is from the devil, carbs are worst than the bubonic plague ........

    This is it, I am becoming breatharian
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    ...This is it, I am becoming breatharian
    For heaven's sake...don't you know that BREATHING causes cancer?!!?11!?1!? All those nasty carcinogenic chemicals in the air! It would be much healthier if we all ate/drank nothing and held our breath forever.

    Wait...that doesn't exactly do much for life expectancy either...
  • fwankiesgirl
    fwankiesgirl Posts: 5
    Everything gives you ****ing cancer! Get over it your all gonna die from something! Do not tip-toe through life just to arrive safely at death.

    Love it!
  • laura30188
    laura30188 Posts: 7
    After already having one kind of cancer like I have. I think I am going to trust my endocrinologist and oncologist on this one... NO soda and sugar is better but if I feel the need to have it diet is better. But thats just what my doctors say... and since I have switched to diet soda and other diet drinks it has helped me lose weight.
  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    Aspartame give you cancer, milk and cheese will kill you, bread is from the devil, carbs are worst than the bubonic plague ........

    This is it, I am becoming breatharian

    Air pollution. :flowerforyou:
  • mmapags
    mmapags Posts: 8,934 Member
    you lost me at mercola.
    Same.
    Yep

    Yeppers!! Lolz!! Ditto!!

    And me too! He is a fear monger and the OP seems to be one too.
  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    Aspartame give you cancer, milk and cheese will kill you, bread is from the devil, carbs are worst than the bubonic plague ........

    This is it, I am becoming breatharian

    Air pollution. :flowerforyou:

    :sad: :sad: :sad:
  • Akimajuktuq
    Akimajuktuq Posts: 3,037 Member
    you lost me at mercola.

    Forget Mercola, go to the sources.
  • Akimajuktuq
    Akimajuktuq Posts: 3,037 Member
    pls stop with this misinformation. just please. its getting so old.

    What misinformation? I didn't give any kind of opinion. I cited an article and its sources.
  • Akimajuktuq
    Akimajuktuq Posts: 3,037 Member
    Figures a paleo adherent would post this, ignorance begets ignorance

    Spare the personal attacks. Very mature. I gave no opinion whatsoever, just an article and the sources. There are more.
  • Akimajuktuq
    Akimajuktuq Posts: 3,037 Member
    you lost me at mercola.
    Same.
    Yep

    Yeppers!! Lolz!! Ditto!!

    And me too! He is a fear monger and the OP seems to be one too.

    Interesting that i have not given any opinion on my post yet can still be judged.
  • Masterdo
    Masterdo Posts: 331 Member
    Figures a paleo adherent would post this, ignorance begets ignorance

    Spare the personal attacks. Very mature. I gave no opinion whatsoever, just an article and the sources. There are more.

    Well, as you can see when you dig into the abstracts and conclusions of some of the linked research, you can see that they are not conclusively saying that what the article says is actually even true... None of the research also had a very large sample, as far as I could see as well.

    The best thing you can reasonably conclude from this is that they don't know, and they don't despite trying for a while, so maybe there isn't much to find there after all.

    Besides, with all the "X gives you cancer" hypothesis out there, all those research would need some quite intense control variables to actually pinpoint anything with semblance of certainty, and none of them were that rigorous.

    So, yeah..
  • Masterdo
    Masterdo Posts: 331 Member
    you lost me at mercola.
    Same.
    Yep

    Yeppers!! Lolz!! Ditto!!

    And me too! He is a fear monger and the OP seems to be one too.

    Interesting that i have not given any opinion on my post yet can still be judged.

    Well, you linked the article, from a website renowned for having as much scientific rigor as the average Jersey Shore participant. Not much can come out of this :p The only way to do better would be to link a crazy [Taubes Mercola Oz] collaboration, sponsored by Oprah.

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