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BITTER SWEET

YOU thought you were doing the right thing.

Sugar is bad for you so you’ve been choosing a diet soda when you feel like a hit of something fizzy and refreshing.

But you might want to think twice before you pull the top off your favourite cool drink and take a big gulp of the artificially sweetened stuff from now on.

An ingredient in diet sodas could cause cancer – and that’s an official warning by the biggest health body on the planet.

Scrutinise the list of ingredients on the label of your favourite sugar-free drink and you’ll spot “aspartame” – and this is the devil in the diet drink.

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