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Common Sweetener Linked with Anxiety in Startling New Research
- paulpauper 4y agomeh. I don't think it proves much. What would be so hard about taking a survey of people who drink a lot of diet drinks about their anxiety levels? That would be more effective I think.
- nullish_signal 4y agoIt's silly to think a self-reported study would be more Accurate than monitoring multiple generations of Lab Mice. Ethically superior in the Short Term sure, but you didn't even mention rats/ animal welfare, just... "meh."
- Salgat 4y agoAspartame is one of the most exhaustively studied ingredients in the human food supply; studies like these need to be much more concrete to raise concern.
- mads 4y agoI have for some time suspected that I was somehow sensitive to artificial sweeteners, so I have largely stopped consuming them. I don't have a good description of what happens, but something is off either the next day or the day after, if I drink a large bottle of Pepsi Max for example.
- nullish_signal 4y agoA family member and I noticed similar slight odd feelings from the sweetener Erythritol Now, I try to look to minimize ingredients/processing, minimize added sugar, avoiding anything branded as "no/low sugar, no/low fat, no/low carbs". Looking to maximize protein, but avoiding every "keto" label like a gilded plague But damn if a big fat Costco Frozen Pizza with an essay of an ingredients list doesn't hit the spot every time A real struggle xD
- devwastaken 4y agoSoda in any form is a diarrhetic and causes dehydration. It's not good for the body in any amount, much less in large bottles. That said, as a long time drinker of sodie pop, my body appears to expect the sugar. Having non caloric sweeteners after a while is like that feeling of dieting where the body wants to return to it's normal. I look at it as a good thing. I shouldn't be drinking it, and if I'm going to I'd rather not contribute to diabetes in my older future.