While the artificial sweetener (found in diet soda and gum, for example) was linked to an average of 20% body fat reduction, ...

A 2025 study in Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy looked at the effects of aspartame on rats. Even low doses caused thickening ...

Sugar-free gum with polyols such as sorbitol and xylitol is most likely to cause gas because of fermentation in the colon.

A recent economic analysis found chewing sugar-free gum may be able to save the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) millions. The analysis showed that if 12-year-olds in England chewed more gum, the ...

Chewing a sugar-free gum daily reduced preterm births in a large study in Malawi. The oral intervention was inspired by past research linking poor oral health and preterm birth. The gum contains ...

Chewing gum in the modern world is profoundly inelegant. You chew it on the subway, spit it on the ground, get it stuck on someone else’s shoe, walk around with a tote bag full of wrappers that will ...

Despite the World Health Organization’s recent warning about it, aspartame doesn’t pose a cancer risk, the FDA and industry experts insist — but given that the artificial sweetener is used in many ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, an entity within the World Health Organization) recently announced that aspartame, a sugar substitute used in about 6,000 products worldwide, is ...

The change of attitude towards sugar is one of the most important food evolutions of the past few years. Eliminating or reducing sugar content is mandatory in order to address the health issues faced ...

Women who chewed sugar-free gum everyday in early pregnancy had a lower risk of preterm birth, according to a multicenter study from Malawi. Incidence of preterm birth was significantly lower among ...