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Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation

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Re: Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation

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Hundreds of housands of years of the human body's evolution should be respected, neh? I like my day's first glass of water to have a half a lemon's worth of juice freshly squeezed into it. My cold-brew (or occasionally espresso) coffee gets real maple syrup (no Log Cabin bullshit sugar-fest) and half-and-half or maybe whole milk. Sometimes I mix yogurt into a mug of milk towards the end of the day. That's the fullnes…

I find this line of reasoning disingenuous. After all, we couldn't consume milk hundreds of thousands of years ago. Does your evolutionary heritage put you in places where hundreds of thousand of years ago you would have consumed lemons, coffee, and maple syrup? Is half-and-half natural? Is coffee? Is maple syrup? On a scale of hundreds of thousands of years all those are relatively recent. It's a bit of straw-man, b…

lmao lemons are for sure comparable to aspartame /s

Re: Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation

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A lot of carbonated water gives me gas, especially when not eating enough. But I am not sure it is an issue. People have various gas levels, it just goes in and out.

And this gas escapes through your urethra?

Fortunately I dont have cloaca ;)
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