Aspartame: Sweetener used in Diet Coke possibly causes cancer, WHO set to declare

https://lemmy.world/post/807203

Aspartame: Sweetener used in Diet Coke possibly causes cancer, WHO set to declare - Lemmy.world

This should be big - and about time. Studies have known about this for 40 years, and it’s known in some circles that aspartame is quite bad for your health. Wonder what coke - and many other companies that use it - are going to do.

Full disclosure I'm going completely tangential for this one.

I find it believable at best that aspartame can cause cancer, but causing weight gain just makes no sense to me.

I used to be FAT. 250 lbs. I didn't really make that many changes to my diet, except for cutting refined sugars way back.

I switched to Diet Coke, got off the little debbies, and I slimmed right down and now I'm hovering around 135.

It would make sense to say that I would maintain that weight or maybe gained more if aspartame was as harmful as this article says, but I'm not seeing it.

Not intending to parrot misinformation if I happen to be wrong, but I've heard that artificial sweeteners can mess with your insulin levels, which can influence weight gain or loss. (Probably not in all folks I'm guessing.)