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Originally Posted by AZCivic
Sure, it will cause cancer as long as you drink at least 1000 diet cokes a day, every day, for 5 years. Did you know most vitamins are fatal too? Everything will kill you if you have a hundred or ten thousand times the proper dosage. Radiation can kill you too, and we're exposed to plenty of radiation every day also. It's all about the dosage.
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The studies were done on rats with various dosages, all of them equivalent to normal human consumption rates. It's true that too much of anything can kill you, but when the amount that they say it "safe" can do you serious harm (enough for them to ban pilots from drinking it even before this study was done) then it's time to take a second look, especially considering all the previous studies were not lifetime length. There are other artificial sweetners that don't have the problems aspartame does, but they aren't as cheap to produce, so guess what we drink?
