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Do artificial sweeteners cause cancer?

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The Pronunciation of Aspartame

Aspartame is a molecule made by joining two amino acids. It subverts your taste system into thinking something is much sweeter than it otherwise is. But over decades of consumption in humans, there is not a hugely strong signal showing that if you eat this stuff, you're at high risk of cancer. We don't have concrete evidence yet to say this causes this and therefore we shouldn't use it.

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