The World Health Organization has changed the classification of aspartame to 'possibly carcinogenic.' Aspartame is commonly used as an artificial sweetener and can be found in some diet soda drinks.

The non-sugar, low-calorie sweetener aspartame has been linked to potential problems with memory and learning, according to a study from the Florida State University (FSU) College of Medicine. In the ...

A World Health Organization agency has classified aspartame, an artificial sweetener widely used in diet drinks and low-calorie foods, as possibly carcinogenic to humans. Getty Images How much ...

The World Health Organization's cancer agency has deemed the sweetener aspartame — found in diet soda and countless other foods — as a "possible" cause of cancer, while a separate expert group looking ...

Diet Coke doesn’t raise blood sugar directly. However, long-term use of artificial sweeteners may still impact overall health ...

The World Health Organization has declared aspartame, a common artificial sweetener used in thousands of products, to be "possibly carcinogenic to humans" — while also noting that "safety is not a ...

Light" soda, sugar-free chewing gum, 0% yoghurt... and often the same ingredient on the list: aspartame. This sweetener, 200 times sweeter than table sugar, was designed to provide sweetness without ...

Aspartame. That little, difficult to pronounce word has been villainized and fetishized to such a degree that you would be hard-pressed to find a bigger buzzword in the current consumer climate. Its ...

Aspartame is a widely used artificial sweetener that has been linked to pediatric and adolescent migraines. Upon ingestion, aspartame is broken, converted, and oxidized into formaldehyde in various ...

This may be hard for a lot of diet coke lovers and gum-chewers to swallow. The World Health Organization’s cancer research arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), now says that ...