This is the best summary I could come up with:
In May, the World Health Organization issued an alarming report that declared widely used non-sugar sweeteners like aspartame are likely ineffective for weight loss, and long term consumption may increase the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mortality in adults.
A few months later, WHO declared aspartame, a key ingredient in Diet Coke, to be a “possible carcinogen”, then quickly issued a third report that seemed to contradict its previous findings – people could continue consuming the product at levels determined to be safe decades ago, before new science cited by WHO raised health concerns.
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).
That same day, WHO’s Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (Jecfa), which makes consumption recommendations, reaffirmed the acceptable daily intake of 40 mg/kg of body weight.
Ruskin said the move also marks a change in direction for WHO, which in 2015 distanced itself from Ilsi when its executive board found the group to be a “private entity” and voted to discontinue its official relationship.
In the “avalanche” of media coverage of WHO’s designation of aspartame as a possible carcinogen, many outlets noted WHO’s split decision, or reported that WHO found the product to be safe.
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Fake sugars that make your body gear up for sugar intake then don’t deliver making your body go in to panic mode is a bad thing? Wow, who’d’a thunked that!
make your body gear up for sugar intake then don’t deliver making your body go in to panic mode
This isn’t a real thing, just as a heads up. It’s just an oft repeat “fact”, similar to “you eat dozens of spiders in your sleep every year.”
The concern here is whether aspartame will possibly cause cancer, and whether it has been tested extensively enough for it to be deemed safe for consumption.
Donald Rumsfeld also ate someones hamster according to the Weekly World News*.
*Not true.
