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What about the mass of people who in order to drink liters of soda every day ingest large amounts of aspartame? Is it about "circumstances" or concentration?

j45 3y ago
Is litres of soda the bar for Aspartame to be bad for someone? What about a few cans a week?
- wahnfrieden 3y ago
  theyre just saying the stakes are high because there is both broad and regularly high consumption
  - Spivak 3y ago
    Yes but a can of coke is ~200mg of aspertame. You would have to drink conservatively 30 cans a day to even get close to known dangerous levels.
    - hedora 3y ago
      If you’re worried about cancer, then maybe it takes that much. If you’re worried about it causing weight gain and/or metabolic syndrome, one serving a day is more than enough to be dangerous.
saiya-jin 3y ago
It literally doesn't matter if its causing cancer or not, that's outright a very bad decision to do so, you will 100% fuck up your health long term. It doesn't matter what type or brand of given soda, if it has calories its bad for you. What else do you need to not do so? Nobody apart from maybe sales folks ever claimed these things are safe to drink in such amounts regularly. Just like nobody ever claimed that consuming say 100g of pure salt every day would be OK, yet you can buy endless amounts of 1kg bags if you want. Do folks really need some government agency to come to them personally to tell them how to live their lives, babysit every single decision they make, steer them away from their addictions on sugar etc? That's not how game of life works.
- red_trumpet 3y ago
  > It doesn't matter what type or brand of given soda, if it has calories its bad for you. What else do you need to not do so? Isn't the point that diet coke doesn't have calories[1]? This is why it uses aspartame as an artificial sweetener. [1 https://www.dietcoke.com/products/diet-coke https://www.dietcoke.com/products/diet-coke

j45 3y ago

Is litres of soda the bar for Aspartame to be bad for someone? What about a few cans a week?

wahnfrieden 3y ago
theyre just saying the stakes are high because there is both broad and regularly high consumption
- Spivak 3y ago
  Yes but a can of coke is ~200mg of aspertame. You would have to drink conservatively 30 cans a day to even get close to known dangerous levels.
  - hedora 3y ago
    If you’re worried about cancer, then maybe it takes that much. If you’re worried about it causing weight gain and/or metabolic syndrome, one serving a day is more than enough to be dangerous.

saiya-jin 3y ago

It literally doesn't matter if its causing cancer or not, that's outright a very bad decision to do so, you will 100% fuck up your health long term. It doesn't matter what type or brand of given soda, if it has calories its bad for you. What else do you need to not do so? Nobody apart from maybe sales folks ever claimed these things are safe to drink in such amounts regularly. Just like nobody ever claimed that consuming say 100g of pure salt every day would be OK, yet you can buy endless amounts of 1kg bags if you want. Do folks really need some government agency to come to them personally to tell them how to live their lives, babysit every single decision they make, steer them away from their addictions on sugar etc? That's not how game of life works.

red_trumpet 3y ago
> It doesn't matter what type or brand of given soda, if it has calories its bad for you. What else do you need to not do so? Isn't the point that diet coke doesn't have calories[1]? This is why it uses aspartame as an artificial sweetener. [1 https://www.dietcoke.com/products/diet-coke https://www.dietcoke.com/products/diet-coke