A doctor has spoken out to highlight how drinking the controversial artificial sweetener aspartame can give people migraines. The artificial sweetener commonly used in thousands of products including diet fizzy drinks like Diet Coke, ice cream and chewing gum is to be listed as posing a possible cancer risk to humans.
It is used to reduce sugar and therefore stop people gaining weight, but last month it was revealed that it will be listed as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” from next month based on the findings of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
This would mean that there is some evidence linking aspartame to cancer, but that it is limited. Now Dr Neel Patel has revealed that the additive, which replaces sugar in around 6,000 diet foods and drinks, can cause people serious migraine headaches.
