Aspartame and Cancer: What to Know About the WHO’s Advice
Experts say there’s no need to panic about your diet soda habit.
Breaking Up With Diet Soda? Here Are 11 Aspartame-Free Drink Alternatives.
The World Health Organization declared Thursday that the artificial sweetener aspartame is “possibly carcinogenic to humans,” adding it to the same risk category as breathing in engine exhaust, working in dry-cleaning and consuming certain pickled vegetables. The W.H.O. suggests you’d have to chug quite a bit of diet soda to enter the danger zone. Its…
Aspartame is Possibly Linked to Cancer in Humans, the WHO Says
A World Health Organization agency declared on Thursday that aspartame, an artificial sweetener widely used in diet drinks and low-sugar foods, could possibly cause cancer. A second W.H.O. committee, though, held steady on its assessment of a safe level of aspartame consumption. By some calculations using the panel’s standard, a person weighing 150 pounds could…
20 Oversized Tote Bags to Carry All Your Things Through This Season and Next
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The Epic Oversized Tote Reformation Oversized Vittoria Tote The Epic Oversized Tote Reformation Oversized Vittoria Tote Never did I ever think I would need a true oversized bag until I had…
PepsiCo Reports Big Jump in Profit After Price Increases
PepsiCo reported a big jump in quarterly profit on Thursday, despite signs that customers are buying fewer cans of soda and bags of chips as the company continues to raise prices aggressively. Pepsi, which makes Gatorade, Lay’s and Quaker Oats, also raised its forecast for earnings in the rest of the year, pushing its stock…
988 Suicide Hotline: What to Know One Year After Launch
The contestants on “Celebrity Jeopardy!” were stumped in the fall when asked about the new “3-digit national hotline phone number for suicide prevention” in the United States, which debuted last July. “What is 311?” the comedian Iliza Shlesinger guessed, wrongly. As it turns out, she was not alone. It has been one year since the…
When Spider-Man Met Jeff Koons
“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” the sequel to the 2018 reimagining of the arachnid-adolescent superhero, doubles down on the first installment with an inventive and magpie visual style. The result is, at least in part, a crash course in art history (literally so, as characters frequently crash into works of art). While the film is largely…
In Guatemala, A Collective of Young Artists Finds Family Through Film
Like many dreams, the contours of what would become the film production house Desobediencia Perfecta were born at 3:00 a.m. Vanessa Martínez, 17, and Javier Martínez (no relation), 18, two students in Guatemala City, Guatemala, stayed up talking one night in April of last year about their love of film. They had just worked together…
What Jon Bonné Learned From Writing ‘The New French Wine’
When Jon Bonné set out in 2014 to write a book on the contemporary wine culture of France, he didn’t grasp the vast nature of the changes that had transformed the country over the last 20 years, or what those changes meant for the rest of the wine-producing world. What he learned surprised him, and…
Snack Plates That Embrace the Ethos of ‘Girl Dinner’
Well into July, more and more of my meals look like this: A smattering of crackers, a small dish of edamame, maybe a mound of hummus alongside spears of Persian cucumbers, a handful of popcorn, a piece of cheese, a few blackberries. If there are any rules for my snackish dinners, it’s that they’re assembled,…