All About Brain Cancer

In 2005, the results of a seven-year study by the European Ramazzini Foundation for cancer research in Italy demonstrated that the chemical sweetener, aspartame , “induces an increase in lymphomas and leukemias in female rats.” This study, involving 1800 rats, demonstrated that aspartame administered at varying levels in feed causes a statistically significant increase of lymphomas-leukemias and malignant tumors of the kidneys in female rats and malignant tumors of peripheral nerves in male rats.

However, a more recent study was done by the US’ National Cancer Institute in 2006 compared people who drank aspartame-containing beverages with those who did not. The study, involving about 500,000 people, showed that increasing levels of consumption were not associated with any risk of lymphomas, leukemias, or brain cancers in men or women.

So which is which? How do we determine who to believe?

(To be continued.)

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