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It’s not astroturfing it’s people sick of these studies where they pump ungodly amounts of aspartame into mice until they get a reaction. Aspartame doesn’t do anything at the levels humans consume it, it’s one of the most studied compounds in food.
It said it was like 15% of human recommended intake.
Sorry legit haven’t read the article but sounds like you have, so I’ll ask for clarity
Would that be the equivalent of a 15% daily recommended dose, as adjusted by weight for a rat, or is it literally 15% of the daily allowance of a human, pumped into the rat? Because the latter is definitely more of what vibe I get from the previous poster.
Cool, so it’s 15% of the RDA for humans, divided by whatever the avg weight difference between a rat and a human is, right? Or similar? That’s the best interpretation of that quote, though it is still a bit ambiguous lol
I read it as the rat equivalent of 15% for humans.
Yeah, that’s what I get now. I would like if they had a more specific rundown of how that number was calculated, and how much water it was in / the rats consumed. May be in the article or study, still haven’t actually read it and don’t have the time ATM.
That quote makes it sound like it’s not adjusted by weight. But it also doesn’t mention the aspartame to water ratio, or how much of the water that the rats drank.
Here’s the relevant sentence in the study:
It’s a lot to unpack, but my interpretation is that it’s been adjusted for a rat
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To translate that into something sensible, the RDA in the US is 50 mg/kg = 110.25 mg/lb. 15% of that is 16.5 mg/lb. So 1653 mg per 100 lbs of bodyweight.
A can of diet coke is about 200 mg of aspartame. So that’s a bit over 8 cans of coke per 100 lbs of body weight. Or 1.5 2-liter bottles per 100 lbs.
That’s… kinda a lot.
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And cigarettes don’t cause cancer, and burning fossil fuels doesn’t cause global warming, and…
Ultimately life causes cancer. All of these things accelerate the speed that cancer tends to develop but, well… I doubt a cigarette a day will significantly impact your life expectancy. The dose makes the poison, after all.
they don’t
smoking a pack a day raises the possibility of cancer
drinking 20l of diet coke a day would probably also cause anxiety
climate change is natural. Ice age didn’t end because of fossil fuels
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
By all means, the Earth goes through cyclical changes. The current change is completely out of line with natural cycles, however. With the amount of data we’ve collected on the subject, you’d have to be an absolute braindead moron to disagree with that at this point.
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