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Diet Soda During Pregnancy May Cause Autism in Male Infants

  • September 25, 2023

A new study reveals that nursing or pregnant women who drink diet soda with aspartame in it may be increasing the risk of autism in their male babies. The survey, which included mothers of 235 children with autism and a control group of 121 children with “typical neurological development,” found that male offspring whose mothers drank at least one diet soda a day were three times as likely to have autism as those whose mothers didn’t drink diet soda. While this...