The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
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Re: The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
#2I wonder how long the diet soda manufactures have been working on this, and preparing for it. I would not be surprised if they already have some thing ready to go to replace it with.
Re: The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
#3I wonder how long the diet soda manufactures have been working on this, and preparing for it. I would not be surprised if they already have some thing ready to go to replace it with.
In my market in Minnesota, Diet coke with "plant based sweetener" is being sold in small quantities. I'm sure it's a market test, and probably good timing based on this too.
Re: The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
#4I wonder how long the diet soda manufactures have been working on this, and preparing for it. I would not be surprised if they already have some thing ready to go to replace it with.
Eh, we know for a fact the nitrates in bacon cause cancer, but how many people stopped eating it?
Re: The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
#5I wonder how long the diet soda manufactures have been working on this, and preparing for it. I would not be surprised if they already have some thing ready to go to replace it with.
Eh, we know for a fact the nitrates in bacon cause cancer, but how many people stopped eating it?
Nitrates in bacon are essential for making bacon. Aspartame is not essential for making coke.
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#6I wonder how long the diet soda manufactures have been working on this, and preparing for it. I would not be surprised if they already have some thing ready to go to replace it with.
Eh, we know for a fact the nitrates in bacon cause cancer, but how many people stopped eating it?
Also the number of ppl having bacon at every meal is small. The number of ppl drinking diet soda - and consuming diet anything else - multiple times per day is significantly larger, at least in the First World.
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#7Recent discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519942
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36522471
And to a lesser extent:
Re: The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
#8This is a dupe and it's only technically true, it's being added to some low impact "possible carcinogen" category that already contains vast swaths of food and human activities. It has no material impact on any health guidance, it's just a clickbait headline.
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#9Healthcare Triage did a review of the research years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf82FfX-wuU
tl;dw: artificial sweeteners get a bad rap, multiple studies have found no harm, studies that did find harm were on rats (which often doesn't translate to humans), and the harms associated with excess sugar consumption are numerous, well-founded, and damning.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, we know for a fact the nitrates in bacon cause cancer, but how many people stopped eating it?
Also the number of ppl having bacon at every meal is small. The number of ppl drinking diet soda - and consuming diet anything else - multiple times per day is significantly larger, at least in the First World.
In the third world, far more people drink diet soda than eat bacon. In the first world, I wouldn't be so sure.