Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
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Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
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Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#2Are there any other common food ingredients that have a high chance of causing cancer?
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#3I think that there's some weird sort of moralization aspect to alternative sweeteners or just a 'too good to be true' attitude. In how many other areas would we spend so much time looking at such scant evidence and taking it seriously?
Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#4Note that it is in rodent. Aspartame hadn't been confirmed as a carcinogenic agent in humans.
That said, I don't think it's a good idea to subject to ourselves to drinking diet soda as a daily habit. It costs money, may or may not interfere with your blood sugar and the health of your gut microbiomes.
As a goal, I limit my intake of any sweet and/or artifically sweetened drinks.
Instead of being a chronic diet coke drinker, I instead became a chronic drinker of water. Two or three cups of water is typically what I drink in a daily meal.
Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#5Note that it is in rodent. Aspartame hadn't been confirmed as a carcinogenic agent in humans. That said, I don't think it's a good idea to subject to ourselves to drinking diet soda as a daily habit. It costs money, may or may not interfere with your blood sugar and the health of your gut microbiomes. As a goal, I limit my intake of any sweet and/or artifically sweetened drinks. Instead of being a chronic diet coke d…
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Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#6Are there any other common food ingredients that have a high chance of causing cancer?
I was surprised to see a Prop 65 warning on the organic frozen spinach we get delivered by Amazon Fresh/Whole Foods. Apparently it's due to Cadmium.
It makes me wonder if the stuff you buy in-store doesn't have the same risk, or if they just don't label it as obviously as online.
Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#7I think that there's some weird sort of moralization aspect to alternative sweeteners or just a 'too good to be true' attitude. In how many other areas would we spend so much time looking at such scant evidence and taking it seriously?
I agree. You saw it with Trump's Diet Coke habit - it somehow was tied into the many ways he is a complete garbage human, as if it was one more petty vice to pile onto the long list of his vices.
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#8bill gates is/was a diet coke fan. if i ran into him, say at dick's drive-in, i'd ask if he still drinks the stuff. i'd likely follow whatever he says. but for now, i'll continue to enjoy my 1-2 cans daily.
Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#9Are there any other common food ingredients that have a high chance of causing cancer?
Acrylamides.
Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#10Note that it is in rodent. Aspartame hadn't been confirmed as a carcinogenic agent in humans. That said, I don't think it's a good idea to subject to ourselves to drinking diet soda as a daily habit. It costs money, may or may not interfere with your blood sugar and the health of your gut microbiomes. As a goal, I limit my intake of any sweet and/or artifically sweetened drinks. Instead of being a chronic diet coke d…
not only is it rodent the amount of Aspartame / kilogram is huge even at their lowest value (20mg/kg). Coke no sugar has ~87 mg of Aspartame in it, you need to do drink ~20 cans of it to meet the same Aspartame level in a 90kg human.