In an effort to consume a more healthy diet while not completely eliminating sodas from the equation, many people have chosen to drink diet sodas. But these may have worse consequences that drinking regular sodas. This is because of a key ingredient: aspartame. Aspartame is a sugar substitute used in diet sodas which has proven to be a neurotoxin. Neurotoxins lead to numerous health problems, one of which can be cancer.
Key Takeaways:
- diet soda pop is neither healthy nor safe, as research continues to show that its primary sweetening constituent in most cases
- The paper compared the health outcomes of women who consume diet beverages to those who don’t
- those who consume aspartame are 50 percent more likely to die from it
“Aspartame specifically has also been shown in studies to actually make people more hungry than if they simply consumed sugar.”
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