If aspartame makes someone’s weight loss program tolerable enough to lose 50+ pounds, then its risks are probably worth it to reduce other risks borne by being obese.
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
#22Good!
I'm for banning artificial sweeteners. Something always told me that you can't get away with having a thing that tastes like sugar but doesn't exactly act like it to the body without some wrong thing happening. Either the taste reaction to the body has to do something strange (tastes like sweet so let's react the same way we would to sugar but oops this isn't sugar so now we're all out of whack) or yeah, something like this where it's carcinogenic.
Now mind you I'm not some wacko who is also against MSG and "chemicals". I also understand that some of the population needs alternatives to sugar. But some of these need full unbiased rigorous testing in humans. What do these things do to our bodies and how do our bodies react to them?
Re: The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
#23Good! I'm for banning artificial sweeteners. Something always told me that you can't get away with having a thing that tastes like sugar but doesn't exactly act like it to the body without some wrong thing happening. Either the taste reaction to the body has to do something strange (tastes like sweet so let's react the same way we would to sugar but oops this isn't sugar so now we're all out of whack) or yeah, someth…
“Something tells [you]”? Based on no chemistry/biology knowledge, nor any apparent knowledge of how long aspartame has been used or any studies of that usage? Or even where the WHO recommendation is coming from?
Come on, now.
Re: The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nitrates in bacon are essential for making bacon. Aspartame is not essential for making coke.
You can buy nitrite-free bacon - doesn't that mean it's not essential?
"No nitrates or nitrites added" bacon still has nitrites as they are generated by the production method: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos...
Re: The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
#25This 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.
> only technically true
Good enough for me
Re: The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
#26Eventually we will get into meaningless situation like in California with Proposition 65 - Basically everything will be labeled that it can cause you cancer and people will start ignoring it.
Re: The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> plant based sweetener Sounds like stevia?
That one also existed before, it was that green labelled Coke.
Re: The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer
#28Eventually we will get into meaningless situation like in California with Proposition 65 - Basically everything will be labeled that it can cause you cancer and people will start ignoring it.
As others mentioned it's being placed in a very low risk category, which you probably can safely ignore (and, I suspect, is probably only of interest to researchers)