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To clarify, this doesn't mean aspartame in food is harmful, it means that in certain circumstances it's possible for the chemical to cause cancer. For example, workers exposed to extremely high levels during manufacturing, or breakdown products formed during improper storage.

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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?

Is litres of soda the bar for Aspartame to be bad for someone?

What about a few cans a week?

theyre just saying the stakes are high because there is both broad and regularly high consumption

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.

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.

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.

> 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

Or soldiers stationed anywhere hot.

Can you find aspartame naturally in the environment in non processed and manufactured foods? E.g steak, fruit, milk whatever? If yes, then I'm a little more lenient on your answer. If not, personally I would rather not see artificial man made ingredients in foods I consume. I did a quick Kagi search and it looks like it's completely synthetic?

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