Cancer and obesity are two major health concerns that affect millions of people worldwide. While many foods are marketed as ...

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 ...

Because of this, aspartame often used in diet sodas to cut down on calories ... with the sweetener or control snack bars that didn't contain aspartame. Again, there was no difference between ...

It remains an ingredient in Diet Pepsi. General Mills’ Yoplait removed aspartame from its yogurts in 2014. The brand’s low-sugar products now contain alternative sweeteners like sucralose.

From Coca-Cola diet sodas to some Snapple drinks, aspartame is a commonly used sweetener. It is set to be listed in July as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” for the first time by the ...

For someone weighing 150 pounds, the ADI would be 2,727 mg or 2.3 g of aspartame daily. A can of diet soda contains 200 mg to ...

“It’s important to use aspartame in moderation,” Kelly said. “While it can help reduce sugar intake, relying too heavily on any sweetener can lead to an unbalanced diet. The best approach is to focus ...

In a 1981 report, JECFA said that an adult weighing 60kg (132 pounds) would have to drink between 12 and 36 cans of diet soda – depending on the amount of aspartame in the beverage – every day ...

As for the research Naik cites about "excitotoxins": It's not about drinks containing aspartame. Instead, the study is about food that contains the neurotransmitter glutamate or substances similar ...