Experiments Prove This Artificial Sweetener Causes Cancer

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/15/this-artificial-sweetener-shown-to-produce-cancer-in-rats.aspx?e_cid=20111015_DNL_art_2

Something to be aware of when choosing drinks and food for yourself and family.  Entire article is of interest.

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Aspartame, also known as Nutrasweet, is an artificial sweetener used in more than 6,000 products. Experiments conducted on rats have already shown that it is capable of inducing cancer in multiple body regions, and its carcinogenic effects are increased when exposure begins in the womb.

A new study in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine, which treated six groups of mice with aspartame from before their birth until their deaths, also found that this toxic artificial sweetener induces cancers of the liver and lungs in male mice. 

So if you're one of the millions who are still consuming this toxin -- it's a prominent artificial sweetener in diet sodas and thousands of other sugar-free foods and beverages -- be aware that doing so could be putting your health at risk. This is exactly why Victoria Innes-Brown, who was concerned for family members who were consuming large amounts of aspartame, particularly diet sodas, took the next step to prove to them just how toxic aspartame may actually be in an article we previously posted.

Private Study Finds Aspartame Leads to Huge Tumors...

Over a 2.5-year period, Innes-Brown performed a set of meticulous and detailed animal experiments, documenting the horrific effects of using aspartame liquid comparable to diet soda. She has done us all a great favor by publishing the findings of her private experiments, as she provides visual documentation of the detrimental health effects of aspartame.

Victoria first raised a total of 108 rats. Sixty of them, 30 males and 30 females, were used as the experimental group. The remaining 48 rats, 24 males and 24 females, were used as controls. Since she's not a food manufacturer, she wasn't able to purchase pure aspartame, which is typically what researchers would use for their studies. Instead, she put NutraSweet, in a daily dose comparable to 14 cans of diet soda per day for the females, and 13 cans for the males, directly into the water of the aspartame group.

Although that sounds like an awful lot, this amount is within the acceptable daily intake (ADI), which was set at 50 mg per kilogram by the FDA. It's also within the range of what some people actually consume daily.

After feeding the rats NutraSweet daily for 30 months, a whopping 67 percent of the female rats developed tumors the size of golf balls or larger! Some of the tumors were the size of the palm of her hand. Twenty-one percent of the males on aspartame developed tumors.

You can view the photos for yourself here …