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July 20, 2023

Is Diet Coke giving you cancer?

General Health
Jennifer Beam Dowd Ph.D.
Jennifer Beam Dowd, PhD and Sara Gorman, PhD, MPH

A: Probably not. TL;DR: Water is probably the healthiest beverage of choice, but don’t stress if you enjoy your diet drinks in moderation. Recently the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a World Health Organization body, announced that it will classify aspartame, the artificial sweetener used in many diet drinks, as a class 2B Read more…

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