Diet coke is a soft drink that has been sold as an alternative even to lose weight and is "terrific" supposedly low in calories, obviously produced by the Coca-Cola company.
This product had a very high rise in the 90s, the world leaned in the beverage aisles looking for this new drink that promised to help you lose weight, but today the soda is in trouble, sales are decreasing every year since 2006 and there is hatred in the international community and in the nutritional community, because obviously, since governments do not fulfill what they promise, it does not help you lose weight, it is false.
Even so, there are a lot of people who continue to gobble down one Coke after another, but now it seems that the company is losing all hope because the WHO has just put out a warning about one of its main components, aspartame, this warning that brought out the WHO, it is because supposedly aspartame is related to cancer.
What is aspartame, it is a white, odorless powder and it is a low-calorie artificial sweetener that is added to diet coke, it is also added to many other things, but for the first time it is said to be declared as a possible risk of cancer for humans, how does this affect us, to what extent is it safe to consume products that have aspartame or coca-cola if you are a regular of coke zero or diet coke or pepsilight that are from the products which are most famous for containing aspartame.
Coca-Cola is not the only product that contains it, the sweetener has been widely used since the 1980s, it is on the restaurant table, in the kitchen of our homes, in carbonated drinks, in chewing gum, in cereals, even in cough drops, are almost ubiquitous, have been cleared for use worldwide by regulators, and have been defined by food and beverage manufacturers as a wonder.
We have to be very attentive, we have to know what foods have it and how to know how to identify it, read the labels, read the ingredients and many times they have another name, we have to try to stay away from artificial sweeteners as much as possible, mainly aspartame. everything light, but there are medicines too.
This is the list of all the products that may contain aspartame, it's long, (we're screwed then), aspartame is a sweetener 200 times sweeter than sugar and it's much cheaper, so that's why they put it on so many products, because it is much cheaper.
According to the World Health Organization, aspartame could be potentially carcinogenic, this is based on studies that have found an association between the consumption of cleavers and the increased risk of certain types of cancer, however, it is important that we emphasize that these Conclusions are still being debated in the scientific community, there is still much more to come out.
The next time you go to the supermarket, friends, read the labels of the products, pay attention to the ingredients, aspartame, it is not referenced by its full name, you will not find it as containing aspartame, in order to find it, you will find it on the label as a sweetener or flavoring or nothing else like E951.
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