Track your pregnancy on our free #1 pregnancy & baby app Lorna Marsh is freelance editor at BabyCentre. She has more than 20 years’ journalism and editing experience, including working for the NHS.

For years, artificial sweeteners were promoted ... 12 cans of Diet Coke for a 130-pound person) — is still safe to consume. The FDA reportedly disagrees with WHO's assessment of the sweetener, however ...

Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that is 200 times sweeter than ... as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" but remains safe to consume based on the current daily intake guidelines.

More health: Is sea salt good for you? How it compares to other salts and how to watch your sodium Dosage amount also matters when considering the safety of any artificial sweetener. "When issues ...

Artificial sweeteners give a sweet taste ... Food ingredient manufacturers have to provide evidence showing that their sweetener: does not cause any adverse effects, including cancer does not ...

But to date, many studies have shown them to generally be safe in small quantities, even during pregnancy. A sweetener called cyclamate is banned in the United States because of concerns about a ...

It is the thing, the worst additive in soda is sugar or high fructose corn syrup, or any other sweetener. High fructose corn syrup is no worse than regular sugar. Just having all that sugar ...

SEOUL - Reports that aspartame, a widely used artificial sweetener, could be reclassified ... customers into thinking aspartame is relatively safer than other carcinogens. According to the ...

Consumption of popular artificial sweetener, erythritol, is associated with an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a study which calls for further safety research to examine ...

The controversy over the health safety of foods containing artificial ... Perhaps the most noted case-- the 1969 removal of the artificial sweetener, cyclamate, after animal studies linked it ...