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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by marginalia_nu on Friday August 18, 2023 @11:51AM (#37177369)
Well we've seen hockey stick shaped population level increases in obesity[1] and colon cancer[2] in the last 40 or so years. Doesn't go to say it was caused by aspartame, but I don't think it can be argued we haven't seen population level effects of something.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/NCHS/data/hestat/obesity_adult_07_08/obe...

[2] https://gut.bmj.com/content/gutjnl/68/10/1820.full.pdf

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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by lotsofpulp on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:14PM (#37177789)
Maybe that something was the explosive availability of added sugar and other carbohydrates.
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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by morkalork on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:29PM (#37178058)
There's a hilarious theory that it's due to the success of stamping out smoking. Nicotine being an appetite suppressant after all.
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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by marginalia_nu on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:47PM (#37178365)
Might be the dawning of the age of aquarius. Not really enough evidence in any direction right now.
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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by adrr on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:32PM (#37179155)
Colon cancer is correlated to red meat and processed meat consumption. Processed meat(eg:bacon and lunch meat) is a known carcinogen and red meat is a probable carcinogen.

We eat more eat meat than previous generations.

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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by marginalia_nu on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:41PM (#37179312)
I don't think that's a convincing explanation of this type of hockey stick, unless there was some event in 2006 where everyone suddenly decided to eat 10 times as much processed meat...?
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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by adrr on Friday August 18, 2023 @02:09PM (#37179761)
Colon cancer has been dropping since the 90s.

https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/colorect.html

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Re:Revealed: WHO aspartame safety panel linked to alleged Co... by marginalia_nu on Friday August 18, 2023 @02:21PM (#37179935)
See the reference above.
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