2024-06-12 13:10:05

Is aspartame bad for you? What we know about the sweetener’s health risks

On 29 June 2023, the soda industry was bracing for a fresh wave of controversy. A media leak had suggested that a research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO), which had been reviewing the artificial sweetener aspartame, was planning to classify
the addictive as possibly cancer-causing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/12/aspartame-health-effects-risks

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