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.

  • Zpiritual@lemmy.world
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    Worth point out is that it doesn’t even reach the same classification as red meat which is classified as probably causing cancer.

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      theres a lot of things that MIGHT cause cancer i feel like if youre drinking enough diet coke to cause cancer its not the sweetener its your impulse control

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        1 year ago

        For sure. Too much of most things causes all kinds of health issues. Variation and modesty is key to health imho.

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      I would seriously doubt any study that claims to have somehow controlled for everything so determine that red meat causes cancer. There are just way too many variables that would be contributing factors.

      Even if there was a culture that ate zero meat ever, there would also be too many lifestyle differences for it to be red meat alone accounting for a decrease in cancer rates.