You may have heard the recent news that the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is set to declare aspartame a “possible carcinogen” as early as this week. Aspartame is of course a popular artificial sweetener found in countless food products marketed as “low” or “no” sugar. This news has sparked a lot of questions from clients and patients on artificial sweeteners in general lately, and whether or not we can/should be consuming them, so I thought I’d get into it a bit more.
Q: Should we be consuming artificial sweeteners?
Q: Should we be consuming artificial…
Q: Should we be consuming artificial sweeteners?
You may have heard the recent news that the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is set to declare aspartame a “possible carcinogen” as early as this week. Aspartame is of course a popular artificial sweetener found in countless food products marketed as “low” or “no” sugar. This news has sparked a lot of questions from clients and patients on artificial sweeteners in general lately, and whether or not we can/should be consuming them, so I thought I’d get into it a bit more.