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Aspartame is set to be declared a possible carcinogen
- whoisthemachine 3y agoCan the link please be changed to the news source, Reuters? Having to jump through Twitter is getting increasingly annoying.
- dredmorbius 3y agoEmail such suggestions, including the story URL, original link, and preferred alternate, to HN's mods: hn@ycombinator.com. (I've done so in this case.)
- whoisthemachine 3y agoThank you, and noted!
- neogodless 3y agoFor those looking for the original source: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/whos-cancer-research-agency-say-aspartame-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-sources-2023-06-29/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
- dang 3y agoChanged from https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1674309239974576128 https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1674309239974576128. Thanks.
- GRBLDeveloped 3y agoPosted this on the other thread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IARC_group_2B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IARC_group_2B I read through this list before when I was talking to a conspiracy theorist about 5G. Radio frequencies are on this list. As are caffeic acid (found in coffee, wine, mint), aloe vera and pickled vegetables. Wouldnt be too scared by its admission to this list
- gmiller123456 3y agoReminds me of when the WHO declared meat as a carcinogen. Pretty useless information. If you actually follow their advice, you'll likely just be switching to something that hasn't been studied as much.
- justinator 3y agoNo they didn't - they classified PROCESSED meat as a carcinogen. And they also have a FAQ to tell you what that means: https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cancer-carcinogenicity-of-the-consumption-of-red-meat-and-processed-meat https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/can... But if you would like to own the vegans, you're more than welcome to eat hot dogs all day, every day, exclusively and we'll see what happens.
- likpok 3y agoFrom your link they call out both processed meat and red meat. They do distinguish that processed meat "causes" and red meat "probably causes" cancer.
- justinator 3y agoWith granularity, both explained in the FAQ and how they're classified (and classified differently).
- gmiller123456 3y agoYou seem to have taken my comment personally. There's a lot of options between eating red meat and being vegan that don't consist of "eating hot dogs all day every day". To my point, the FAQ you linked has the question about whether eating fish or poultry is better to which their answer is : "The cancer risks associated with consumption of poultry and fish were not evaluated." As I remember the announcement it was "meat", though it's totally possible it was "red meat" and I just remembered it wrong. Though I specifically tried to find more information about why they classified it as such, and which studies they relied on, and there was no information to be had, certainly not the FAQ you linked. The only thing they had was about a two sentence announcement declaring it as a carcinogen.
- cwillu 3y agoActual link without the twitter spam: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/whos-cancer-research-agency-say-aspartame-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-sources-2023-06-29/ https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
- dang 3y agoComments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519942.