Aspartame has been sweetening diet soda and other sugar-free products since the 1980s, and its safety seemed established. But that certainty changed in July last year after an arm of the World ...
The World Health Organization’s cancer research arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), now says that ...
A few months ago, my doctor uttered a phrase I’d long dreaded: Your blood sugar is too high. With my family history of ...
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the World Health Organisation’s cancer research unit, is for the first time poised to label aspartame as a potential carcinogen from July ...
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 ...
A dietitian lends her expertise. Medically reviewed by Allison Herries, RDN Aspartame is an artificial, nonnutritive sweetener used worldwide as a food additive in more than 6,000 products.
While scientists have not yet specifically looked into whether aspartame can cause constipation, some research indicates it may affect a person’s gut microbiota. However, the results are ...
Aspartame, the artificial sweetener found in a variety of diet beverages and low-calorie treats, has been the subject of ...
To our knowledge, aspartame-associated migraines related to clinically relevant positive reactions to formaldehyde on patch testing have not previously been reported. In 2003, Hill and Belsito ...