WHO says soda sweetener aspartame may cause cancer, but it's safe within limits

I’d make a strong argument that one Diet Coke a day is still healthier even if it’s carcinogenic vs one regular coke everyday. Sugar is that bad for you.

"Look, it may give you cancer, but honestly at this point what won't. And at least the cancer has a chance to take you out before the catastrophic collapse"

Nine to fourteen cans of cola a day is the limit. Eek, I've probably done that when I was a young programmer! Hope it doesn't catch up to me. :(

Of the basis WHO is using here, most if not all longterm studies (the kind you'd want for assessing things like cancer risk) are based on observational evidence. That is, a study where the participants typically aren't asked to do anything they don't already normally do. For this topic, that means generally speaking the participants are going to be people that already normally drink low calorie sweetened beverages.

It doesn't really seem like they're accounting for the fact that this means that the participant candidates are going to skew towards people that are overweight, which is like the 2nd highest risk factor for cancer generally.

I can't really make sense of their recommendation. The data required to recommend for or against just isn't there. The totality of short term data is all very showing a very strong association between sweetened drinks and weight loss. Wish they'd just explain this stuff properly so we didn't have to rely on the dumbass media to interpret advice meant for medical professionals

Don't worry you're only drinking the recommended amount of carcinogens.

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This has been a thing since forever. I remember there being a big doobadoo about the shit in Diet Coke back in the 90's. They showed it gave mice cancer.

It used to be called NutraSweet.

This thread is fucked with astroturfing. Welcome to Lemmy, everyone! It's easier to do this shit here... It's kind of a massive fucking problem.

I don’t know. Who would say that?

Aspartame gives me mad headaches anyway.

Aspartame is nasty anyway

Just a little, light cancer.

I heard that the WHO is pushing this agenda in order to replace aspartame in your diet coke with vaccines. Wake up beeple!

I drink a lot of Coke Zero and mainly went on it because sugar taxes were making regular Coca Cola far more expensive.

The notion that big soda corporations are giving us cancer is quite concerning.

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Good riddance. Regardless of whether the allegation of being dangerous are true or not, anything that takes aspartame out of the food industry is good.

What’s the limit on packs of gum? Asking for a friend.