• scytale@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Sugar, especially in the US where it’s literally added into everything. What’s worse is the alternative (substitutes like aspartame) might also be a candidate and we just don’t know it yet because enough time hasn’t passed to study the long term effects. I try to take stevia as much as possible because it’s more “natural”, but only a few sugar-free products use it over aspartame. I read recently the WHO still considers aspartame as a carcinogen, but only in excessive amounts, like several glasses of soda a day.

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      2 years ago

      I don’t understand why everything has to be so sickly sweet. Give me a soda with real sugar, but like 1/16 the amount