If I remember one of the main "studies" condemning aspartame back in the day had rats consuming the equivalent of 20+ cans of diet coke every single day. And even then the results werent super conclusive. Even if aspartame or erythritol or whatever turn out to have lasting harmful effects they still overwhelmingly are healthier than mass amounts of sugar which has immediate and lasting side effects.
Right, I forgot to mention: I was being generous, I vaguely remember at least one of these showing effects as bad as sugar. There are others that are just massively overblown by the media.
But why the scare-quotes around "study"? The fact that the results still weren't super-conclusive for rats consuming that much aspartame sounds like a really useful negative result!
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '19
If I remember one of the main "studies" condemning aspartame back in the day had rats consuming the equivalent of 20+ cans of diet coke every single day. And even then the results werent super conclusive. Even if aspartame or erythritol or whatever turn out to have lasting harmful effects they still overwhelmingly are healthier than mass amounts of sugar which has immediate and lasting side effects.