Why do people act like coffee in the morning is such a sacred routine but soda in the morning [basically the same drink] is lowbrow and unhealthy? - eviltoast

like, it’s caffeine and water and brown, who cares. i drink diet soda so it’s no calories, no sugar. versus the stereotype starbucks order, why is soda so demonized

the whole sort of basically woo stuff about oh there’s antioxidants there which give you a 3% lower risk of skin cancer after the age of 65 like come on that doesn’t count

      • dakku@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        1 year ago

        We don’t. It’s been studied for decades and all they could come up with was that “in massive quantities it’s possible it might cause cancer”. Which is shit. Everything in massive quantities breaks something.

        • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
          44·
          1 year ago

          It’s not recommended to intake more than 40mg per day per kilo of body weight. For a kid that could be two cans of coke.

          I hope no one is giving their kid two cans of coke in a day, but I bet you a thousand pounds that they are.

          • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
            21·
            1 year ago

            So… you should like… avoid obvious signs of it? We have little wiggle room? wdym by this dog there’s defiantly an area between cancer riddled and 100% healthy

        • kryptonicus@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          That WHO study is highly problematic. It has some fairly serious methodological flaws. It’s been disputed by the FDA. It is biased due to the panel comprising:

          eight WHO panelists involved with assessing safe levels of aspartame consumption who are beverage industry consultants who currently or previously worked with the alleged Coke front group, International Life Sciences Institute (Ilsi).

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