Oh my fuck. I hate news stories like this. Aspartame falls into the same cancer risk category as eating red meat sometimes and being kinda lazy. A rigorous systematic review was conducted of dozens of studies of aspartame and they did not find a plausible biologic mechanism by which aspartame could cause cancer. Epidemiologically, it’s vaguely correlated, not causative of cancer.
Also, in the Reuters article it notes that a 132-lbs adult would have to drink 12 to 36 cans of diet coke a day for the dose/exposure to become relevant to the risk they’re talking about. This article is talking about one study that is at odds with the systematically reviewed data from 40 human observational studies, 12 experimental animal studies, and 1360 assay/experimental end points to look for the supposed link.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691522007475#sec5
Agree, though just because we currently have not been able to establish that something is harmful, we should still be open to reevaluating that assumption given new evidence.
Consider PFAS, which we for a long time thought was completely inert and harmless, at least after production. Only recently we’ve discovered or perhaps rather accepted that it has adverse effects on human health.
Another example is freon. A completely awesome product, until we found that it caused the ozone hole and we had to ban it.
Your answer is as good as the that headline is bad. this was a very informative and correct analysis of aspartame. kudos
Remember when Big Sugar™ did that study on how sugar is beneficial? Is this that again?
Right? If media articles on stuff like this were all correct, literally everything but distilled water causes cancer, seemingly.
Per the article. You have to drink 12 to 36 cans a day (depending on the individual) before it even starts having health risks.
So it’s only a concern for Americans then?
Being completely transparent I don’t care if there are any health risks associated with it for the greater population. I am just allergic to it and it gives me the worst shits possible, so if we could stop putting it in things that would be killer. It’s in every gum now so I just can’t buy gum anymore.
