Before you take another sip of that aspartame-laden diet soda, here are 14 reasons to rethink that drink:
1. Only one year after aspartame was approved by the FDA, its own task force learned that some of the original data showcasing aspartame’s safety had been falsified to hide results showing animals fed aspartame had developed seizures and brain tumors. The artificial sweetener was never recalled.
2. Ironically considering its name and reputation as a “diet” drink, drinking diet soda is more likely to make a person fat. It is linked to a 34% increase of metabolic syndrome, along with its telling symptoms of high cholesterol and abdominal obesity. Just two cans of diet soda daily has been linked to a 500% increase in waist size.
3. Aspartame has been linked to the formation of various types of cancer. According to Randall Fitzgerald, author of The Hundred-Year Lie, some of the cancers linked to aspartame consumption include: brain, liver, lung, kidney and lymphoreticular cancer.
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