Are there any other common food ingredients that have a high chance of causing cancer?
Red meat.
Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
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Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#22Note 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…
To be sure, the jury is still out on this, but there is at least reason to be concerned about aspartame’s like to certain neurological problems as well:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23280025/
Also, it still spikes your insulin. Better to just avoid it and sugar altogether as much as possible.
Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#23Note 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…
Considering how widespread Aspartame on a societal level, you'd think there'd be epidemiologic evidence of increasing cancer rates over that time. Maybe there is some literature on it, but I hadn't heard.
Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#24Are there any other common food ingredients that have a high chance of causing cancer?
Processed meats and red meats are linked to colorectal cancer. I believe it's something like 70% of CRC cases can be traced back to red/processed meat consumption. >In 2007, the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) stated that there is convincing evidence linking the consumption of red and processed meat with the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). The WCRF further stated that the public should limit their intake of…
These studies are all incredibly weak, because they rely on surveys and pluck variables out for correlations. So besides the fact that people almost never remember or accurately report what they eat over many years, it's a dubious correlation that can't be relied on.
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#25I 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've always thought they tasted terrible.
They taste different to cane sugar / corn syrup but good/bad is subjective and something you get used to. I used to not like it but now my taste adjusted it and now I don't like the "real sugar" flavor.
Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#26I 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've seen lots of concern about preservatives, colors, and flavorings in foods as well, but sweeteners have a more pronounced role as replacements for sugar. This makes them far more visible in general.
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#27Are there any other common food ingredients that have a high chance of causing cancer?
These are not common food ingredient, and they are not supposed to be injested. I was doing the dishes the other day, and like usually, doing a terrible job--trying to save water too. I was thinking what damage could soap residue do? I then noticed the Dawn Soap. From and center they listed all the ingredients. (So front and center it looks like a lawyer told them to place the ingredients front, and center?) Do I still love Dawn soap--yes, but not for my dishes anymore. (Machine shops use Dawn to clean parts, and it works great on oily birds.
My point is the amount of chemicals around us. An No--I'm not claiming anything bad about Dawn Soap.
WATER SODIUM LAURYL SULFATE surfactant SODIUM LAURETH SULFATE C10-16 ALKYLDIME-THYLAMINE OXIDE ALCOHOL DENAT. solvent PPG-26 SODIUM CHLORIDE SODIUM HYDROXIDEadjuster PEI-14 PEG-24/PPG-16 COPOLYMER cleaning PHENOXYETHANOL solvent solvent* stabilizes formula FRAGRANCES fragrance perfume adds scent to product METHYLISOTHIAZO-LINONE COLORANTS, BLUE 1,YELLOW 5, RED 33 colorant colorant C9-11 PARETH-8 STYRENE/ACRYLATES COPOLYMER TETRASODIUM GLUTAMATE DIACETATE CHLOROXYLENOL PHENOXY-ISOPROPANOL GLYCERIN SODIUM CUMENE-SULFONATE PROPYLENE GLYCOL solvent solvent* TERPINEOL solvent solvent
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#29Note 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…
Considering how widespread Aspartame on a societal level, you'd think there'd be epidemiologic evidence of increasing cancer rates over that time. Maybe there is some literature on it, but I hadn't heard.
The problem is that we have introduced so many new chemicals recently and have seen so many unexplained changes to health. Its virtually impossible to work out which thing did what. I'm not going to stress over aspartame though. Plastics, PFOA, PTFE, processed meats, and air pollution are way above on my concern scale.
If I was concerned about cancer from aspartame, I would never touch any form of alcohol again.
Re: Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation
#30Are there any other common food ingredients that have a high chance of causing cancer?
I might be a paranoiac here, but I prefer to keep a somewhat-permeable whitelist instead of a blacklist. Make sure 2/3ish of my calories come from healthy animal proteins (I raise pigs and chickens and trade meat and eggs for beef, so I know exactly what's going into what's going into me), drink almost exclusively water (2-5 expressos a day are worth mentioning too), and then fill in the rest with whatever the hell I…
I agree. Flavor should follow function. Too many people prioritize building meals that taste good when they should first be optimizing for nutrition. Once you've configured genuinely healthy foods into some arrangement suitable for consumption, it's best to just keep building that same meal over and over. You'll get more efficient at making it and eating it, thus saving time and never having to worry if you're hitting your nutrition goals.
Save the creative meals for special occasions or social functions.