That stop at the vending machine could be doing some real damage...
a new study suggests that ingesting artificial sweeteners often found in drinks like soda and energy drinks can leave you in greater danger of getting cancer.researchers examined information from a questionnaire about the nutrition and health of more than 100,000 French adults. Following up over a median period of about eight years, they compared how people's consumption of different artificial sweeteners impacted their risk of various kinds of cancer and of cancer overall.
"To our knowledge, no previous cohort study had directly investigated the associations between quantitative artificial sweetener intakes per se — distinguishing the different types of sweeteners — and cancer risk," study authors Charlotte Debras and Dr Mathilde Touvier of the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team at the French Institute for Health and Medical Research at Sorbonne Paris Nord University tell.
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