The artificial sweeteners you find in diet sodas and sugar-free snacks, if approved by health agencies, are considered safe when you eat them in normal amounts — and there’s no solid proof they cause cancer, make you gain weight, or hurt your gut bacteria.

The artificial sweeteners you find in diet sodas and sugar-free snacks, like aspartame or stevia, are considered safe by health agencies when you eat them in normal amounts — and there’s no solid proof they cause cancer, make you gain weight, or hurt your pregnancy.

Several official health groups have looked at lots of science studies over and over, and they all agree that artificial sweeteners won’t hurt you if you eat or drink them in normal amounts.

Experts say that sugar substitutes like those in diet sodas are safe for everyone — even kids and pregnant women — as long as you don’t eat way more than normal amounts.

When people eat or drink things with low-calorie sweeteners like they normally do, studies show it doesn’t hurt their health.

Studies with people who drink diet sodas or eat foods with artificial sweeteners don’t show that these sweeteners change the good bacteria in your gut or how your body handles sugar, as long as you’re eating or drinking them in normal amounts.