Men and women who consumed one or more diet soda per day were 1.4-times more likely to get leukemia than men who did not consume diet soda according to a recent analysis.

Men were part of the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study.

Women were part of the Nurses’ Health Study.

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Men from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study who consumed one or more diet soda per day were 1.3-times more likely to get non-Hodgkin lymphomas than men who did not consume diet soda according to a recent analysis.

They did not find a significant increase in women consuming diet sodas.

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Men from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study who had a high consumption of regular sugar-sweetened soda were 1.66-times more likely to get non-Hodgkin lymphomas than men who did not consume regular soda according to a recent analysis.

Women consuming diet sodas did not show a significant increase.

(I have not seen a copy of the entire paper yet, so I don’t know what constitutes a “high consumption of regular sugar-sweetened soda”.)

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Men from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study who consumed one or more diet soda per day were 2.0-times more likely to get multiple myeloma than men who did not consume diet soda according to a recent analysis.

They did not find a significant increase in women consuming diet sodas.

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Yes, NutraSweet (aspartame) was found to increase weight loss and be surprisingly effective for weight maintenance according to a recent study. Read the entire article | Email this article

People who drink either sodas or diet sodas are more likely to be overweight than people who do not according to data collected over 8 years and reported at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in San Diego, California. Read the entire article | Email this article

SACCHARIN, THE ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER, increases lipolysis (the release of fat from fat cells) in rats according to one study. Read the entire article | Email this article

Women using Nutrasweet (aspartame) lost more weight after one year than women who abstained from using Nutrasweet according to one study that they authors reviewed. These women had been part of a three month study which had them follow a diet of 1000 calories per day. Read the entire article | Email this article