No, but the ignorance of blindly believing the TV (when it says that aspartame and sugar-rich fruit juices are healthy beverage options for kids) sure is.
I think that was just the 90s. “Health food stores” were like 90% vitamins/supplements and 10% terrible bread and bulk bins of brewers yeast and brown rice.
My family went to the heath food store a lot, voted blue and marched against nestle and the gulf war. And we drank a lot of concentrated orange juice.
studies kept going back and forth how its a potential carcinogen. Likewise with stevia too, i suspect its a way to discourage stevia use and go on aspartame related drinks.
The studies are not iffy, but if you try and publish any data questioning the safety of artificial sweetners, you could get turfed from a university because they have a massive war chest of lawyers defending a $600M industry.
Aspartame is two synthetic amino acids and can interfere with brain signaling, especially in people who replace any water in their diet with diet sodas. No one anticipated the gluttony of diet soda drinkers, and FDA safety trials used a fraction of intake of the real world. US consumes 12 GALLONS per capita a year.
Similarly, MSG industry has so many attack bots out there that if you even question if a brain neurotransmitter analog has side effects they label you a racist.
As a biochemist, I would avoid any artificial sweetner or flavor enhancer. Aspartame certainly triggers carcinogenic pathways and since it came on the market, diabetes rates rapidly increased.
A lot of the push that caused the myths of juice and what not in the 80s and 90s come from the Republicans. Was backed by Republican funding and businesses.
So yes, it does actually weirdly have a political affiliation. It became wide spread across basically all of America. But Republicans were the first to do it, and the last to let it go.
Same. The adults who raised me bought diet soda and always had a jug of fruit juice in the fridge for the kids.
Why yes, they did always vote Republican. How did you know?
Is diet soda and juice a reflection of one’s politics now…?
Yeah, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
No, but the ignorance of blindly believing the TV (when it says that aspartame and sugar-rich fruit juices are healthy beverage options for kids) sure is.
I think that was just the 90s. “Health food stores” were like 90% vitamins/supplements and 10% terrible bread and bulk bins of brewers yeast and brown rice.
My family went to the heath food store a lot, voted blue and marched against nestle and the gulf war. And we drank a lot of concentrated orange juice.
We thought juice was heathy 🤷♀️
What’s wrong with aspartame?
studies kept going back and forth how its a potential carcinogen. Likewise with stevia too, i suspect its a way to discourage stevia use and go on aspartame related drinks.
Nothing, at best there’s some iffy studies that inconclusively say it might be, possibly a carcinogen.
Maybe…
The studies are not iffy, but if you try and publish any data questioning the safety of artificial sweetners, you could get turfed from a university because they have a massive war chest of lawyers defending a $600M industry.
Aspartame is two synthetic amino acids and can interfere with brain signaling, especially in people who replace any water in their diet with diet sodas. No one anticipated the gluttony of diet soda drinkers, and FDA safety trials used a fraction of intake of the real world. US consumes 12 GALLONS per capita a year.
Similarly, MSG industry has so many attack bots out there that if you even question if a brain neurotransmitter analog has side effects they label you a racist.
As a biochemist, I would avoid any artificial sweetner or flavor enhancer. Aspartame certainly triggers carcinogenic pathways and since it came on the market, diabetes rates rapidly increased.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38769413/
i dont see how it a political affiliation for these types of foods. it doesnt determine who you vote if you are drinking a certain beverage?
A lot of the push that caused the myths of juice and what not in the 80s and 90s come from the Republicans. Was backed by Republican funding and businesses.
So yes, it does actually weirdly have a political affiliation. It became wide spread across basically all of America. But Republicans were the first to do it, and the last to let it go.
Uh no. All food agricorps pushed their products through marketing campaigns.