Aspartame, an artificial sweetener 200 times as potent as regular granulated sugar, is used in thousands of products on grocery store shelves, from sodas and drink mixes to low-cal condiments and ...

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 ...

The announcement this week by a World Health Organization agency that the artificial sweetener aspartame — used in such low-calorie products as Diet Coke, Trident gum and sugar-free Jell-O — is ...

Aspartame, one of the most widely used artificial sweeteners, was classified as a possible carcinogen by the World Health Organization, but still safe to consume within limits. Cans of ...

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 ...

Decades after aspartame was approved for use in the United States, the sweetener’s safety is getting another look by global health bodies assessing its potential links to cancer. The World Health ...

LONDON – The research arm for the world’s leading health organization is set to label the key sweetener in Coca-Cola diet sodas, sugar free foods and tabletop sweeteners as a possible cause of cancer.

The artificial sweetener aspartame is now considered “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” declared the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which evaluates substances’ risk of causing ...

One of the world’s leading global health bodies has declared aspartame — a common artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke and many other sugar-free products — to be a possible human carcinogen, ...

The non-sugar, low-calorie sweetener aspartame — which is found in many sugar-free or "diet" foods and drinks — has been linked to potential problems with memory and learning, according to a study ...