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Is My Drink Plotting My Downfall? Xylitol Explained

I thought the story of scary bug-eyed fish with fiber-optic lights protruding from their foreheads would be my story of the week.

But then I saw scary headlines proclaiming that the sweetener xylitol — in the gum that I am chewing as I write — is linked to a higher risk of heart attack, stroke, and early death.