If You Avoid These 10 Foods You Will Live Longer

DIET SODA

The chemical culprit found in most products containing artificial sweeteners, including the ever-popular diet sodas, is aspartame, which has been linked to brain tumors as well as some blood-related cancers, such as leukemias and lymphomas (though research has been minimally focused on rats).

‘Aspartate breaks down into the neurotransmitter aspartic acid, which without being bound to other amino acids is neurotoxic,’ says Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, health, diet, and nutrition expert.