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With bacon you know what you get, so you can dose it and take your risks. Aspartame has been sold to us as the healthy alternative to sugar. People literally us
by penneallagricia 3y ago
With bacon you know what you get, so you can dose it and take your risks. Aspartame has been sold to us as the healthy alternative to sugar. People literally use aspartame as an excuse to chug liters of soda every day.
- Aachen 3y agoIsn't it a healthy alternative to sugar? If you have a one in five chance to live ten years longer because you don't develop cardiovascular issues from obesity, but one in a million develops cancer, I mean... It's going to depend on how this turns out exactly.
- favorited 3y agoThe WHO recently conditionally recommended against using non-sugar sweeteners for weight control. Their stance is that we should be reducing sweetened food/beverage intake in general, rather than trying to find healthier ways to sweeten what we eat. https://www.who.int/news/item/15-05-2023-who-advises-not-to-use-non-sugar-sweeteners-for-weight-control-in-newly-released-guideline https://www.who.int/news/item/15-05-2023-who-advises-not-to-...
- Shorel 3y agoI am personally trying to achieve that. Liquid chocolate, the kind we drink as a hot beverage in Central and South America, was difficult for me to get used to without any sweet taste. Nowadays I prefer it that way. Coffee is a bit more difficult for me.
- mannykannot 3y agoWhile that is their stance, it is conditioned on what they seem to consider to be good evidence that using non-sugar sweeteners for weight control does not work (at the level of public health, that is; for individuals, YMMV.)
- abtinf 3y agoIf we shift the context just a little bit, everyone would ridicule this kind of abstinence-only approach.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago"Everyone" might be a stretch. Depending on the topic, I'm in camp abstinence.
- hedora 3y agoAspartame causes weight gain, so abstinence-only isn’t a great analogy. If you are trying to lose weight, then just use less sugar. That’s actually pretty easy, since artificial sweeteners and sugary drinks desensitize you to sweet stuff. If you taper off for a week or so, you’ll find that the stuff you were previously drinking is cloyingly sweet. For instance, reading a starbucks menu makes me shudder. I can’t even drink their non-dairy lattes anymore because they are too sweet.
- cheekibreeki2 3y agoNothing is safer than sugar if you're just talking about a few grams for your coffee.
- fbdab103 3y agoCan of Coke has 39 grams of sugar. Diet cokes has 0.2 grams of aspartame.
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- copperx 3y agoYou listed two isolated facts. You forgot to make a point.
- penneallagricia 3y agoThis was downvoted but Is correct, relative amounts mean nothing.
- copperx 3y agoUsing artificial sweeteners for coffee is completely unnecessary, unless you're drinking a lot. The amount of calories in two teaspoons of sugar is minuscule.
- Matumio 3y agoTwo teaspoons is already one sixth of the WHO recommended daily sugar intake, and that was just the coffee. And WHO claims there are additional health benefits expected if you can do half of what they recommend.
- Spivak 3y agoThe caffeine will get you before the aspartame if you actually chug liters a day so you can't really do that in practice. Source: My dad has a heart attack from drinking liters of diet soda every day.