It uncovered eight WHO panelists involved with assessing safe levels of aspartame consumption who are beverage industry consultants who currently or previously worked with the alleged Coke front group, International Life Sciences Institute (Ilsi).

Their involvement in developing intake guidelines represents “an obvious conflict of interest”, said Gary Ruskin, US Right-To-Know’s executive director. “Because of this conflict of interest, [the daily intake] conclusions about aspartame are not credible, and the public should not rely on them,” he added.

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    1 year ago

    I believe there are studies showing it messes with gut bacteria. Seems consistent with what you describe.

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      1 year ago

      yeah the occasional non-cancer side effects are well known by now but weirdly enough they just can’t seem to find anything conclusive on whether it causes cancer or not…

      At this point I’m willing to accuse the sugar lobby for trying to sabotage this chemical out of the market

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      Not aspartame. The study, it’s mainly one, showed that sucralose and saccharin did just that. But aspartame had no effect.