Drinking diet sodas or using artificial sweeteners like aspartame or saccharin doesn’t seem to raise your chances of dying from cancer, according to a big long-term study of U.S. adults.

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No Association between Low-Calorie Sweetener (LCS) Use and Overall Cancer Risk in the Nationally Representative Database in the US: Analyses of NHANES 1988–2018 Data and 2019 Public-Use Linked Mortality Files

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The study looked at low-calorie sweetener use in a large group of US adults and found no link to higher cancer deaths, which supports the claim.

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No Association between Low-Calorie Sweetener (LCS) Use and Overall Cancer Risk in the Nationally Representative Database in the US: Analyses of NHANES 1988–2018 Data and 2019 Public-Use Linked Mortality Files

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DOI: 10.3390/nu14234957

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