A person reflects on their past habits of consuming multiple cans of an artificial sweetener daily, only to become alarmed by the World Health Organization's classification of Aspartame as possibly carcinogenic to humans.
Safety questions have haunted aspartame — the no-calorie sweetener used in many diet soft drinks and other low-calorie products — since its invention. Some answers exist, but should we trust them if they were influenced by the beverage industry?
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