With the introduction of the sugar tax you can no longer have sugary drinka without paying extra. Sounds great right?
Except companies are avoiding paying it by lowering sugar content and filling it with sweeteners instead. One of the sweeteners "aspartame" is linked with cancer and your nuts not functioning properly!
Maybe it's coincidence, but it rarely ever is.
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475677 ago
In reality it's a financial decision to use artificial sweeteners. Not only do their prices stay the same but they can advertise 50% less sugar and calories in the hopes of getting people to drink double their normal intake of sugary drinks.
I don't doubt there's negative side effects from ingesting chemicals we can barely pronounce but it's a financial decision first and foremost for the producers.
Talc ago
there are serious side effects to ingesting Aspartame, it's a RODENTICIDE which used to be illegal to put in the food chain until someone greased ron reagan's palm. About 10 years ago I read an article about a surgeon having to abandon brain surgery on a patient because aspartame had plasticised parts of the brain and the plastic was chipping the scalpel! The patient died. Don't be that patient, don't eat rat poison, it's even dumber than tide pods!
qwop ago
It was Donald Rumsfeld. Isn't that interesting how the necons pop up everywhere.
Just google his name and Aspartame, and lots of fun reading.
Talc ago
I thought it was Rumsfeld but wasn't quite sure, my once razor sharp memory is starting to fade (with age or too much partying or something). Figured someone would google it, wasn't wrong. Thanks!