<story><title>Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042911/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiba</author><text>Note that it is in rodent. Aspartame hadn&amp;#x27;t been confirmed as a carcinogenic agent in humans.&lt;p&gt;That said, I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s a good idea to subject to ourselves to drinking diet soda as a daily habit. It costs money, may or may not interfere with your blood sugar and the health of your gut microbiomes.&lt;p&gt;As a goal, I limit my intake of any sweet and&amp;#x2F;or artifically sweetened drinks.&lt;p&gt;Instead of being a chronic diet coke drinker, I instead became a chronic drinker of water. Two or three cups of water is typically what I drink in a daily meal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>Also note that this particular research lab seems to be the only one that can find any link between aspartame and cancer, with many others finding none. Additionally, this is not new data but a reanalysis of existing data, and the rats in question were exposed to a quite high dose.</text></comment>
<story><title>Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation</title><url>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8042911/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiba</author><text>Note that it is in rodent. Aspartame hadn&amp;#x27;t been confirmed as a carcinogenic agent in humans.&lt;p&gt;That said, I don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s a good idea to subject to ourselves to drinking diet soda as a daily habit. It costs money, may or may not interfere with your blood sugar and the health of your gut microbiomes.&lt;p&gt;As a goal, I limit my intake of any sweet and&amp;#x2F;or artifically sweetened drinks.&lt;p&gt;Instead of being a chronic diet coke drinker, I instead became a chronic drinker of water. Two or three cups of water is typically what I drink in a daily meal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>int0x2e</author><text>H2O all the way.
I used to drink a ton of coke everyday. 
I started carrying a water bottle everywhere (and I do mean everywhere), and I take small sips very often. It&amp;#x27;s a surprisingly easy habit to kick - grab a bottle and stick with it.</text></comment>