• neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    Same. The adults who raised me bought diet soda and always had a jug of fruit juice in the fridge for the kids.

    Why yes, they did always vote Republican. How did you know?

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        5 hours ago

        No, but the ignorance of blindly believing the TV (when it says that aspartame and sugar-rich fruit juices are healthy beverage options for kids) sure is.

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          4 hours ago

          I think that was just the 90s. “Health food stores” were like 90% vitamins/supplements and 10% terrible bread and bulk bins of brewers yeast and brown rice.

          My family went to the heath food store a lot, voted blue and marched against nestle and the gulf war. And we drank a lot of concentrated orange juice.

          We thought juice was heathy 🤷‍♀️

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            Nothing, at best there’s some iffy studies that inconclusively say it might be, possibly a carcinogen.

            Maybe…

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            54 minutes ago

            studies kept going back and forth how its a potential carcinogen. Likewise with stevia too, i suspect its a way to discourage stevia use and go on aspartame related drinks.