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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Total nonsense. If you consume enough of any substance, it will eventually kill you. Aspartame is THE most heavily studied food additive in human history and every well-conducted study has found it to be harmless. You need to consume the equivalent of 125+ cans of Diet soda per day to see an even slightly elevated risk of cancer or any other serious disease. This is disgusting, misprepresentative fear-mongering that will steer people away from low-calorie alternatives to sugary soft drinks, thereby contributing to increasing rates of obesity and diabetes and playing right into the sugar lobby's interests.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If donald trump hasn't contracted cancer from his diet coke habit it's probably safe enough

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

One can keep hoping.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've been saying aspartame is carcinogenic for decades now. If further research is needed, then why are food producers still able to use it? Seems to me like if they suspect that it's carcinogenic, that it should be restricted until they can prove it's safe for consumption.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They’ve been saying aspartame is carcinogenic for decades now.

Thing is, "they" (scientists) haven't. The general public just kind of assume it is because "unnatural". Study after study has not shown any effect, with this study being notable mainly because it does.

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