Everything might cause cancer.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...
The current system (especially CA Prop 65) makes it impossible for these pronouncements to carry any meaning whatsoever.
Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
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#112Weird to have Coke in the Reuters headline when it's not just Coke that uses aspartame. And this is interesting may be related? >Aspartame is hydrolysed in the body to three chemicals, aspartic acid (40%), phenylalanine (50%) and methanol (10%). Aspartic acid is an amino acid. >When there is an excess of neurotransmitter, certain neurons are killed by allowing too much calcium into the cells. ...The neural cell damag…
Diet Coke is undoubtedly America's biggest source of aspartame. Diet Coke has massive market share.
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#113It's always surprising to me how quick we are to go from discovering a chemical to mass-producing it. We're only just figuring out all of the negative externalities of things like PFAS, and they're in absolutely everything (packaging, clothes, pizza box linings, food cans, cookware...)
Leaded gasoline will really blow your mind, at least it did for me Edit: Figuratively not literally, haha!
Vertasium has a great video on the invention of leaded gasoline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV3dnLzthDA
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#115The whole war on sugar is baffling to me. After I had my first glass of soda in a decade, my impression is that artificial sweeteners are garbage. Poisonous, too. But this has been known for decades, hasn't it. It's cheap, though.
As for me, I am off to the toilet for my drink. It has served me well so far even though it has no taste or electrolytes
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#116Just returned from Ireland and every 'regular' soda was full of disgusting artificial sweeteners. In the usa these would be labeled diet. And of course sucralose was pretty common and we're now finding scary things about its harm to the human body. Sugar really isn't that bad..
Just because we're finding out many sugar replacements are bad doesn't mean that sugar isn't bad in high doses as with sugary drinks.
Don't consume high doses of anything. Sugar is fantastic.
Re: Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
#117This is awful reporting. Aspartame has been studied for more than 40 years and no regulatory body in any country has found it to be cancerogenic; it is a risky substance for people with a rare desease called Phenylketonuria. So, the reader will be under the impression that it will cause cancer, which is pretty dubious, all while obesity for which sugary drinks are partially responsible is a very real cancer risk.
Well, is it good or neutral for you? I've always felt like these diet drinks were just marketing to make you think everything was fine, feel free to drink as many as you want. I've worked with a few people that would go through 4-6 Coke Zeros every day. In no world can I imagine that that wouldn't have negative long term effects on a human -- all things in moderation, right?
Personally, I'll drink a Mexican Coke with cane sugar maybe once or twice a year, knowing it's not great for me and treating it as a dessert.
But I do agree, it's not good reporting. Pretty much no info on the actual scientific research, but hopefully WHO will give more in depth data.
Re: Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
#118Weird to have Coke in the Reuters headline when it's not just Coke that uses aspartame. And this is interesting may be related? >Aspartame is hydrolysed in the body to three chemicals, aspartic acid (40%), phenylalanine (50%) and methanol (10%). Aspartic acid is an amino acid. >When there is an excess of neurotransmitter, certain neurons are killed by allowing too much calcium into the cells. ...The neural cell damag…
Diet Coke is undoubtedly America's biggest source of aspartame. Diet Coke has massive market share.
I had a computer science professor who drank so much diet coke that she had a wall of empty cans stacked up from floor to ceiling in her office. Even then, 20 years ago now, I was so grossed out with that level of artificial intake I wanted to grab her shoulders and shake her. But that wouldn't have helped my grade.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
effectively this is pick your poison: aspartame or sugar
Well no. May I suggest water?
just don't drink TOO much [1]
Re: Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
#120This is awful reporting. Aspartame has been studied for more than 40 years and no regulatory body in any country has found it to be cancerogenic; it is a risky substance for people with a rare desease called Phenylketonuria. So, the reader will be under the impression that it will cause cancer, which is pretty dubious, all while obesity for which sugary drinks are partially responsible is a very real cancer risk.
Well, is it good or neutral for you? I've always felt like these diet drinks were just marketing to make you think everything was fine, feel free to drink as many as you want. I've worked with a few people that would go through 4-6 Coke Zeros every day. In no world can I imagine that that wouldn't have negative long term effects on a human -- all things in moderation, right? Personally, I'll drink a Mexican Coke with…
> In no world can I imagine that that wouldn't have negative long term effects on a human -- all things in moderation, right?
Why on earth would you think that?
It's carbonated water with a tiny amount of food dye, sweeter and caffeine. The latter of which, iirc, has generally positive effects.