Study links cognitive decline to surprisingly small daily amount of artificial sweeteners

Adults who ingest daily the amount of artificial sweetener typically found in a can of diet soda exhibited cognitive decline at a rate 62 percent faster than people whose intake is only a fraction of that amount, according to a new eight-year study published in the medical journal Neurology. Researchers in Brazil followed more than 12,700 adults with an average age of 52 and examined their use of seven common low- and no-calorie sweeteners—aspartame, saccharin, acesulfame K, erythritol, xylit...