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The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer (www.vox.com)

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[–] else@lemmy.fmhy.ml 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also note most people are choosing between sugar and aspartame or another sweetener, and sugar is pretty much categorically a health risk for humans.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Nail on the head. Aspartame is still better for you than super processed foods loaded with sugar. This reminds me of the big smear campaign against fat that the sugar industry engineered to take the heat off of themselves way back when