WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners

Re:WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners by firstfewshells on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:00PM (#36295695)

I don't know what kind of an egregious organization the WHO is. First they let millions of people consume sugar alternatives for years, if not decades. Then they release a report saying those alternatives may lead to premature deaths. At this point, I feel like saying, F** it. I'm just gonna consume whatever the f** I feel like without ever reading about or listening to anything in the news.

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Re:WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners by longbrass on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:16PM (#36295945)

Your choice of language is interesting. Regarding the WHO, if they banned artificial sweeteners from the start would you have suppored this unilateral process? "They let" indicates that you beleive the WHO does or should include a degree of power over every-day life.

There exists an International Sweeters Association, that has been against these efforts since it's inception 35 years ago: https://www.sweeteners.org/latest-science-post/the-who-recom...

https://www.sweeteners.org/about-isa/

Which shouldn't be a surprise given the Sugar Association is 80 years old: https://www.sugar.org/about/history/

So sure, consume "whatever the f*: you feel like knowing that either way you will be receiving "sciene based" communications from interested parties supporting that behavior.

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Re:WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners by robertlagrant on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:24PM (#36296097)

> "They let" indicates that you beleive the WHO does or should include a degree of power over every-day life.

You know what they mean. "Let" can be "let us carry on doing this without informing us better". Bad-faith nit-picking is detrimental to conversation.

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Re:WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners by zouhair on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:13PM (#36295900)

It is quite sad that even in Hacker News are people lacking basic knowledge on how science works.

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Re:WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners by inversetelecine on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:47PM (#36297807)

It's hard, because sometimes I'm told "The science is settled" then other times I'm told it's always changing.

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Re:WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners by zouhair on Monday June 12, 2023 @08:38PM (#36303497)

"Settled" does not mean it cannot be tweaked by new information.

It is best explained by Isaac Asimov in his small essay "The Relativity of Wrong"[0].

[0]: https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

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Re:WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners by whatscooking on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:12PM (#36298263)

Oh we know how it works. Science was bought out by Big industry a long time ago and is as much of a religion as Christianity

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Re:WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners by zouhair on Monday June 12, 2023 @08:41PM (#36303526)

I don't think this forum is suited to your kind of short sighted opinions. Life is more complicated than your black and white world view.

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Re:WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners by whatscooking on Friday June 16, 2023 @02:28PM (#36361446)

Except it’s not. Because that’s exactly what happened with sugar. Why are studies funded by Big Food 10x more likely to say sugar is ok? Coincidence, right? Science isn’t as objective as you think.

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Re:WHO advises against use of artificial sweeteners by Fauntleroy on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:03PM (#36295729)

Were you paying attention to WHO guidelines in the first place?

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