Diet sodas are no better than sugary drinks for people with diabetes By . ... Saliva samples taken after drinking diet sodas found that aspartame stays in the body longer than anticipated.

Diet soda contains artificial sweeteners that trick your brain into thinking you’re consuming sugar. This confusion can ...

We don’t love labeling foods and beverages “good” or “bad” — not even soda. This sort of black-and-white thinking doesn’t do ...

Its new guidance for safe consumption is 40 milligrams of aspartame per kilogram of body weight, meaning that a committed diet-cola fan weighing 150 pounds could drink as many as a dozen cans a day.

Because aspartame is about 200 times sweeter than sugar, the amount of aspartame needed to sweeten one 12-ounce can of diet soda is very small — only about 192 milligrams, or 0.007 ounces. How ...

In a 2020 survey of 3,430 people, just 25.2% of respondents said that diet sodas were more healthy than their regular soda counterparts. Meanwhile, 26% said diet sodas were actually more un healthy.

Let’s get fizz-ical. A Toronto-based registered dietitian has evaluated the healthfulness of the no-calorie diet sodas Coke Zero and Diet Coke — and the results are soda-pressing for Coke fans ...

The JECFA evaluation should put diet soda drinkers at ease: Despite IARC's new classification, JECFA saw no reason to alter the acceptable daily intake of aspartame, which is currently set at 0-40 ...

Cancer Risk or No, Diet Soda Is Bad For You Aspartame's cancer risks might be small, but the artificial sweetener's benefits are even smaller. July 6, 2023 at 9:15 AM EDT ...

The latest knock against diet soda was the World Health Organization’s announcement two weeks ago of a possible link between aspartame, the artificial sweetener used in Diet Coke and many ...