do any of you experience this?  aspertame (equal, diet pop, etc.) can be a bad trigger for migraines, but for some reason drinking coke zero during a migraine makes me feel a lot better.  

Oh my god not this shit again.

Another weird plant article from the Sugar Industry about how artificial sweetners are the REAL Nazis!

1. All the participants were middle aged women.

2. Their diets AND rates of depression were based on surveys. That they themselves filled out.

Someone from Harvard worked on this? For what, a check wrapped around a Hershey bar?

The focus seems to be on "ultra-processed foods," a phrase a lot of people are constantly arguing about, because everyone has a different list of foods that should be included under that heading.

We know that diets heavy in food-product from Corn Reshaping Factories are a possible factor in why certain populations get a lot of cancer and heart disease. We also know these same populations are poor, have bad access to preventative healthcare, smoke and drink a lot, live in substandard housing...

Noticing a trend here?

But these guys published a study about how soda with aspartame makes you depressed. And for some reason, Forbes is SUPER interested in it.

I'm not arguing that eating tons of Mountain Dew and Doritos won't kill you. Nature made us capable of easily digesting spinach and apples for a reason. But if the greatest insight you have to add is "everyone should fear diet soda," you are up to obvious shenanigans.

Here is the link to this worthless garbage:

And make soda and ice cream a treat, not part of your daily meals.

I've de-sweetened. It sucks and takes like 3 months of sweating and jitters. But once you do it, you'll be amazed at how sickeningly sweet everything suddenly is.

TAB was always the odd bottle out in the soda aisle... The rise and fall of a mass-market niche brand