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  1. 🚨 Breaking News: #Aspartame, the villainous #sweetener, apparently has a side gig in aggravating #atherosclerosis through a nefarious insulin inflammation plot! 🙄 Meanwhile, ScienceDirect's superior user experience shines through yet another "oops" moment, with more support tickets than actual insights. 🤦‍♂️ #ScienceFail #NotSoSweet
    sciencedirect.com/science/arti #ScienceFail #HealthNews #InsulinInflammation #HackerNews #ngated

  2. The human body's inability to break down #sucralose, an artificial #sweetener found in many zero-calorie food and drink products, is well established by scientific research. The compound is so stable that it escapes wastewater treatment processing and is in drinking water and aquatic environments.

    phys.org/news/2024-07-reveals-

    #environment
    #pollution

  3. If you use artificial sweeteners, especially xylitol, you really should read this. While promoted as "completely natural" this product does some awful things to your body.

    stuff.co.nz/food-drink/3503033

    #Xylitol #Sweetener #Health

  4. Aspartame and cancer: Why you really shouldn’t worry about this - Enlarge / Bottles of Diet Coke, which contains aspartame.

    Th... - arstechnica.com/?p=1954575 #artificialsweetener #livercancer #carcinogen #aspartame #sweetener #science #group2b #obesity #health #cancer #sugar #iarc #who

  5. Chemical Found in Common Sweetener Splenda Damages DNA.
    A new study finds a chemical formed when we digest sucralose (splenda) is “genotoxic,” meaning it breaks up DNA.

    news.ncsu.edu/2023/05/genotoxi

    #Splenda #ArtificialSweetener #Sweetener #Food #FoodTechnology

  6. Digestion of artificial #sweetener #sucralose appears to create metabolite that damages #DNA | #Research | Chemistry World

    "The artificial sweetener sucralose, which is sold under the brand name #Splenda, could be metabolised in the gut to form a compound that damages DNA, in vivo studies have revealed."

    chemistryworld.com/news/digest

  7. Seems like avoiding sugar with something artificial
    Is really all not that beneficial
    When it causes strokes, heart attacks, and dying
    I don't think it's really worth trying

    #FoodSafety #sweetener #monkfruit #poem (human)

    cnn.com/2023/02/27/health/zero