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Common sugar substitute shown to impair brain cells, boost stroke risk (www.colorado.edu)

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[–] livingcoder@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

When you say "I don't need X because I'm not pregnant" it looks like a contradiction when you say "I should avoid X even though I'm not pregnant". There are specific reasons purely because of a person being pregnant that they should avoid or consume certain matter, so I see the blanket statement as overly simplistic (but not wildly outrageous).

When we had our recent child we avoided everything that had any chance of a negative impact (and it's easy to do when the pregnant person is a knowledgeable nurse who takes care of pregnant mothers every day). Why take a chance, but it's really "Why should a pregnant person take a chance?".

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What does your wife say about this? Is it better to not take those things even when not pregnant?

We're just two laymen arguing for the sake of arguing at this point.