🌐 The WHO recently labelled aspartame as a possible carcinogen, which is obviously concerning for a lot of people - especially those who drink sweetened soft drinks like diet coke. 😟 Does it mean that if you drink a diet coke you're dramatically increasing your risk of developing cancer? 🤔

Well, there isn't a lot of evidence to support it being a carcinogen currently, however there's enough to suggest that more research is needed. 📚 The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) have set a threshold of at 40 mg/kg/day for Aspartame, and advise against exceeding this. ⚖️

To put this into perspective, this is around 10 cans of diet soda A DAY to hit that threshold for the average adult, which is really quite a lot. 🥤🥤🥤 Taking this forward, even if you were to drink a couple of diet sodas a day you would be well under the recommended limit recommended by WHO themselves. 👍

Now, does this mean you SHOULD consume that many? Ideally not. ❌ If you can avoid doing that then that's probably better, because we want the majority of our diet to be made up of whole foods which are unprocessed. 🥗🍎 However, if you really enjoy a diet soda or it helps you lose weight then go for it! 🥤🏋️‍♂️

Based on current recommendations, it's not going to do you any harm, and if you're using them to lose weight - you're doing yourself a lot good. 🌈💪

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