You don’t have to freak out about aspartame in your diet soda
www.theverge.com
Aspartame being a possible carcinogen doesn’t mean what you think.

“The IARC will reportedly classify aspartame as a possible carcinogen. But this isn’t a food safety agency, and the context matters.”

  • JoJo@social.fossware.space
    English
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    1 year ago

    It’s a bit more than that. Cancer is caused by copying errors. Just the right errors, in just the right order. The longer you live, the more chances these copying errors get to happen in just the right order. If nothing else kills you, cancer will.

    So, wealthy countries have a lot of cancer because they have a lot of people living longer. And the media loves to run stories on how terrifying this is.