Everything reminds me of her.
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I mean, this was brain cells directly exposed to it in concentrations far higher than would occur in a human body after metabolism with no secondary carbohydrates that would likely come with eating said food (units you like eating spoonfuls of pure Splenda I suppose).
I think brain cells wouldn't do well exposed directly to many things, like too much oxygen, either.
So I'd say this study should be taken with a grain of ~~salt~~ sugar
Why cannot they just put erythriol in the title?
Then you wouldn’t click the link to find out what it was.
Yeah but shit like this makes me not want to read the article at all. I just skim it until I find what the thing is.
Just like some annoying marketing campaigns with ads that you have no fucking idea what they are about (like ".it's coming", "soon" and shit like that) and only find out like a month later when they make a new campaign actually telling you that. I will never engage with that company or buy the product just because I hate ads like that.
I never click on clickbait. I refuse to support anyone who engages in that practice.
Skimming the article is the same as reading it in full - they just want to place their cookies, and clicking the link is enough to do that if you don't go through all the settings including turning off all the "legitimate interest" options - and that is often a pain to do.
I have an extension that automatically does cookies for me
Consentomatic? I love that extension.
So do I, but it doesn't turn off the legitimate interest on a lot of sites. I suspect that the cookie corps are working hard to circumvent it.
Oh, I hate it too, but it’s going to continue happening as long as there are more users that increase website traffic and generate ad revenue by falling for the clickbait than there are that avoid the product entirely because of it.
Then you wouldn’t need to click the link and read 20,000 words and 15 adverts before the buried headline is finally revealed.
Our study adds to the evidence suggesting that non-nutritive sweeteners that have generally been purported to be safe, may not come without negative health consequences,”
No. It adds to research about this sweetener. You can't generalize beyond that.
Except for the numerous other artificial sweeteners that have been found to also have negative effects. This has been a trend, and I think that's what they meant by that statement
Their research says nothing about sweeteners that weren't part of their study.
Correct. However, it 'adds to' the evidence provided by other studies
No, it doesn't. It only adds to the research on this sweetener.
Source that actually names the thing in its title.
Unfortunately it's of course barely readable for laypeople. So is there a safe upper limit? Like if I put a teaspoon of it in my cup of coffee, am I destroying my brain?
Cells were treated with 6 mM erythritol, replicating the concentration found in a typical serving of an artificially sweetened drink, for three hours.
What's "mM"?
Yep. Erythiol has a molecular weight of 122 g/mol, so 6 mM is the same as 0.732 g/liter.
It should be noted that the cells were exposed to the full concentration in the drinks, so the concentration they encountered is much higher than it is when it has been diluted by all the water in our bodies after we drink it.
Ah. I remember that from desperately trying to wrap my head around it in Chemistry class. Thank you, it's impossible to search for.
What’s crazy is that I wasn’t familiar with erythritol, and searched to see what had it as an ingredient. The entire first page of results were almost all the same AI generated cream touting the benefits of erythritol, like they were trying to sell me on it. And no specific foods were listed that had it as an ingredient.
There were a lot of things like “consider the delicious possibilities that erythritol can bring to your table.” Someone is trying to sell it that hard, then that alone tells me I should probably avoid it.
That's the new normal for internet search results, not a concerted effort by big erythritol...
Wouldn't using normal sugar, but not a fuckton of it, be better?
Not for diabetics
That sounds healthy and not profitable in any way. Get out of here with that shit.
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