Aspartame has long been marketed as a guilt-free alternative to sugar in popular food products, ranging from zero-calorie Diet Coke to sugar-free Jell-O. It's also had a pretty bad rap, and the artificial sweetener has now been linked to an increased risk of heart attacks and stroke in mice. But not everyone's convinced this is as bad as it sounds for humans.Continue ReadingCategory: Wellness &am
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Common sweetener in sugar-free drinks linked to serious heart problems
Posted by ArielTechGeek 69 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Common sweetener now linked to impaired memory and learning
Posted by ArielTechGeek 588 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
Two months on from it being declared safe by the FDA, aspartame is again making headlines for the wrong reasons, this time for its potential negative impact on learning and memory.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Florida State University, Memory, Learning, Brain, Cancer
Despite alarm, sweetener still deemed safer than bacon and red meat
Posted by ArielTechGeek 653 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
As forecast in June, the cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially named the non-sugar sweetener aspartame as possibly carcinogenic to humans.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: World Health Organization, FDA, Cancer, Artificial, Diet
Not so sweet: Chemical in common artificial sweetener found to damage DNA
Posted by ArielTechGeek 698 days ago (https://newatlas.com)
A new study has found that consuming a widely available artificial sweetener produces a chemical that is damaging to DNA. The findings raise concerns about whether the sweetener is a contributing factor to a number of health problems.Continue ReadingCategory: Health & Wellbeing, LifestyleTags: DNA, Artificial, Sugar, North Carolina State University
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