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Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Coca-Cola front group (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It uncovered eight WHO panelists involved with assessing safe levels of aspartame consumption who are beverage industry consultants who currently or previously worked with the alleged Coke front group, International Life Sciences Institute (Ilsi).

Their involvement in developing intake guidelines represents “an obvious conflict of interest”, said Gary Ruskin, US Right-To-Know’s executive director. “Because of this conflict of interest, [the daily intake] conclusions about aspartame are not credible, and the public should not rely on them,” he added.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's pretty acidic which sucks for your teeth for one but that wasn't what I was trying to say

Yeah I just really mean as a diet as a whole though. If you have an issue with sugar intake then you're probs drinking way too much sugary drinks. To suggest just swapping out sugars for fake ones I don't think is best choice to suggest for most people.

I think there's probably tons of other issues too just aside from the excess glucose. So fix the diet not the sugar.

Yeah I agree it's fine that a most of these chemicals are safe in moderation and well researched. My gripe is the hot swap fix-all attitude that people can take from it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That makes sense. I'm coming at this as someone who drinks diet coke because they like it rather than to avoid drinking sugar.

Amusingly it's the fact that diet coke is relatively less sweet that makes me like it.