This should be big - and about time. Studies have known about this for 40 years, and it’s known in some circles that aspartame is quite bad for your health.

Wonder what coke - and many other companies that use it - are going to do.

  • danielfgom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s definitely bad for you. Original Coke is better but of course still not good.

    I have kidney disease and whenever I drank something with aspartame in it, my body would reject it and push it out via my tongue, so I would taste aspartame for 2-3 days after!

    Now I just don’t drink any cold drinks at all. Water with a drop of concentrate (after checking ingredients) or water with a drop of fruit juice.

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      t’s definitely bad for you.

      Define “bad”. People act like certain foods are “good” or “bad” when it’s shades of grey and proabilities. One diet soda is fine. One “og” coke is fine. Drinking gallons a day? Likely unhealthy in any case (even water is unhealthy in large enough quantities).

      In most studies of aspartame the quantities needed to ‘cause’ cancer are enormous. Whereas “normal” consumption of the amount of sugar in non-diet sodas is highly correlated with increases in obesity and diabetes across a population.

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      1 year ago

      It’s definitely bad for you. Original Coke is better but of course still not good.

      This is totally baseless statement and most likely false. Sugar as far as I know still way more deadly to humans than all the sweeteners combined.