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The WHO declared aspartame "possibly" causes cancer. Here’s what that means. | Vox (www.vox.com)

submitted 7 months ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/science@lemmy.world

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

So, I can keep drinking my beloved zero mountain dew?

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There are other things in that which are bad for you.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

prove it

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would if I weren’t going to bed. Feel free to ignore me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's pretty interesting how many walls of text you'll write to defend an unnecessary additive but not to prove you should just drink water

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Another straw man.

A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.[1]One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".

The typical straw man argument creates the illusion of having refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition through the covert replacement of it with a different proposition (i.e., "stand up a straw man") and the subsequent refutation of that false argument ("knock down a straw man") instead of the opponent's proposition.[2][3] Straw man arguments have been used throughout history in polemical debate, particularly regarding highly charged emotional subjects.[4]

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You should switch to Diet Baja Blast. It’s healthier because it’s tastier or something.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Green means healthy!

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The "zero" beverages are usually sweetened with Sucrolose primarily. Not Aspertame. Though I've seen some with primarily Sucrolose and also Aspertame as a secondary ingredient.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Mountain dew has aspartame

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The original selling point was partly that it wasn't aspartame, but I think that's changing to the mixture since some people react poorly to sucrolose.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The original selling point was partly that it wasn’t aspartame,

Was it? I thought it was just an angle to use a better tasting sweetener than Aspertame. Sucrolose tastes much closer to sugar than Aspertame does, probably because Sucrolose's chemical structure is very close to sucrose.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah some of the Diet brands were running as "aspartame free" when it was gaining popularity