New research from Italy shows that the artificial sweetener aspartame can be carcinogenic.
Indeed, scientists showed for the first time in experimental conditions that aspartame "causes a dose-related statistically significant increase in lymphomas [malignant tumors that arise in the lymph nodes] and leukaemias [chronic neoplastic diseases of the bone marrow] in female rats at dose levels very near those to which humans can be exposed."
The startling new study -- which was published in the Cancer Research Centre for the European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences in Bologna, Italy -- also reveals a connection between low exposure of aspartame and a 62% increase in lymphomas and leukaemias compared to controls, even though this was not statistically significant."
I'm no scientist, but I'm baffled as to why 62% -- which seems like quite a lot -- isn't deemed "statistically significant."
New research from Italy shows that the artificial sweetener aspartame can be carcinogenic.
Indeed, scientists showed for the first time in experimental conditions that aspartame "causes a dose-related statistically significant increase in lymphomas [malignant tumors that arise in the lymph nodes] and leukaemias [chronic neoplastic diseases of the bone marrow] in female rats at dose levels very near those to which humans can be exposed."
The startling new study -- which was published in the Cancer Research Centre for the European Ramazzini Foundation of Oncology and Environmental Sciences in Bologna, Italy -- also reveals a connection between low exposure of aspartame and a 62% increase in lymphomas and leukaemias compared to controls, even though this was not statistically significant."
I'm no scientist, but I'm baffled as to why 62% -- which seems like quite a lot -- isn't deemed "statistically significant."