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 World Health Organization (WHO) is reportedly considering declaring aspartame “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” according to a Reuters report Thursday morning. The WHO’s International Agency for ...

The WHO has declared aspartame, a food additive used frequently in diet soda and other low-calorie beverages, "possibly" carcinogenic to humans, but did not make any changes to its recommendations for ...

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, ...

Diet Coke fanatics have been screaming, crying, and throwing up since aspartame, the sweetening agent in the soda, was declared “possibly carcinogenic to humans” last week. The new, worryingly worded ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS – It's one of the world's most popular low-calorie sweeteners. But now, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared aspartame a "possible" carcinogen. Most commonly, it's found in diet ...

Soft drink giant PepsiCo recently announced its plans to stop sweetening Diet Pepsi with aspartame in response to growing consumer concern, yet the company, regulators and many medical authorities say ...

Can artificial sweeteners trigger headaches? While the subject has been explored only through a few studies, early data indicates that aspartame – one of the most common sweeteners on the market today ...

Sometimes you want a drink with more pizzazz than water, so you might turn to diet soda. But with reports about the potential dangers of aspartame, a sugar substitute in many diet sodas, you might ...