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Re:FDA says aspartame is safe, disagreeing with WHO finding ... by zer8k on Friday July 14, 2023 @04:16PM (#36729337)
You do realize you can sweeten more than beverages right? What if a diabetic wants a cookie? Or ice cream?

This is why hazard ratios are important.

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Re:FDA says aspartame is safe, disagreeing with WHO finding ... by Clamchop on Friday July 14, 2023 @04:49PM (#36729731)
Aspartame and most sweeteners fall apart at high temperatures, limiting their usefulness for a lot of foodstuffs, like cookies.

Which is a shame in my opinion.

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Re:FDA says aspartame is safe, disagreeing with WHO finding ... by mrleinad on Friday July 14, 2023 @05:22PM (#36730122)
> What if a diabetic wants a cookie? Or ice cream?

Diabetics can eat cookies and ice cream, they just need to shoot themselves with insulin afterwards. It's having too much of it the problem.

Besides, if something is bad for you, you avoid it. Period. There are infinite other flavors in life to make it all about that single one. "But I want it" is not a reasonable argument.

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