Good news about your diet fizzy drink: despite concerns about a reported link between aspartame and certain cancers (leukemia, lymphoma and brain cancer), a study from the US National Cancer Institute has found no relationship between the artificial sweetener and those diseases. Researchers surveyed the food and beverage consumption of 340 045 men and 226 945 women from 1995 to 2000 and found that the development of the three cancers in aspartame users was no higher than it was in non-users.

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