Could the sweetened drinks we're consuming be making us feel a little more anxious? A 2022 study looking at the effects of the artificial sweetener aspartame on mice suggests that it's a possibility that's worth investigating further.
  • Silverseren@kbin.social
    94·
    2 years ago

    There are plenty of studies done by those wishing to push pseudoscience claims. We wouldn’t have people like Andrew Wakefield otherwise.

    And nutrition is one such field that has an outsized amount of pseudoscience pushers.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOP
      610·
      2 years ago

      There are also a shit ton of studies done by food processing & manufacturing companies that are bogus. Knowing how your own body reacts to foods isn’t pseudo science. You’d agree that nutrition is part of that, yes?

      You sound like team cigarette! “It’s made from all natural materials and plants and people have been smoking for centuries”.

      • Silverseren@kbin.social
        93·
        2 years ago

        Oh no, I’m an actual scientist who knows molecular biology and the decades of research showcasing pseudoscience health claims to indeed be pseudoscience.

        History check: it’s the scientific community that showed cigarettes were bad for you years before the public ever listened to the facts.

        • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOP
          47·
          2 years ago

          Oh no, I’m an actual scientist who knows molecular biology and the decades of research showcasing pseudoscience health claims to indeed be pseudoscience.

          So great, then you know that a small percentage of people can react to things that you can’t explain. We’re on the same page.

          History check: it’s the scientific community that showed cigarettes were bad for you years before the public ever listened to the facts.

          Interesting, I bet the cigarette companies didn’t do their own studies to show everything is fine. And if they could have, go online and convince the scientific community is pseudoscience.