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Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks (brusselssignal.eu)

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[–] phx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Straight up Stevia isn't too bad. It comes from the leaves of a plant and if anything is often sweeter tasting per volume than sugar. That doesn't mean people should be drinking soft drinks with it in great volume versus water, but it's an acceptable substitute IMO to sugar in coffee or the occasional drink and still better than cane sugar. Soft drinks contain plenty of other shit that's not particularly good for you in addition to the sweeteners too.

Sucralose is nasty stuff, and Splenda is just a brand, with their "sweetener" containing a bit of Sucralose in their chemical cocktail "sugar substitute" in addition to hefty doses of dextrose/maltodexrin as bulking agents.

[–] BrickEater@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I genuinely don't understand how anyone can ingest fake sweeteners and not be disgusted, they taste so wrong.

[–] crater2150@feddit.org 1 points 8 hours ago

So stevia is fake, because it comes from the leaf of a plant instead of from the root or the cane?

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9891650/

I'm not sure if this includes Stevia but artificial sweeteners have some pretty bad long term effects

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Little is known about the impacts that ASBs pose on health, especially those used in beverages like DS. As discussed above, some findings have been made about their relation to cardiometabolic implications, but these findings remain controversial.

Why in the fuck y'all linking the studies without reading? Or do you think people around you are also stupid and nobody can actually read what you linked? Do you think we would be intimidating by big words or something. Fuck.

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

? Did you read the conclusion, which is what the researchers believe you should take from these findings? I picked some random paper because this is well established that they have negative effects

The excessive consumption of these beverages does indeed pose a threat to health, as it impacts many organs and systems.

Some of the risks are listed as follows: mental health (including incidental mood disorders such as depression and eating disorders such as bulimia); delays in child neurodevelopment when consumed by mothers during pregnancy; cardiac remodeling (increased LAD and LVM); evidence of worsening retinopathy as well as increased HbA1c in diabetics; increased urinary symptoms in women; incidental ESRD, a modest association between consumption of ASB and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma as well as multiple myeloma in men, incidental rheumatoid arthritis in women; increased risk of hip fractures in postmenopausal women; incidental dental erosion and caries; and finally, increases in BrAC when used in alcoholic beverages.