• odd@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    This baffles me so often. I have a coworker who is on cigarettes, weed, caffeine, and alcohol. But is not vaccinated, because that’s unhealthy.

    Lately he cought me in the office eating sweets and started to educate me how bad sugar is.

    You can’t make that shit up.

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      4 months ago

      Lately he cought me in the office eating sweets and started to educate me how bad sugar is.

      I mean, people do tend to eat more sugar than they probably should, but the main artificial sweetener that I see used in candies is xylitol, which is, unfortunately, also a laxative. Eat more than a few xylitol-sweetened candies at one sitting, and one’s in for diarrhea.

      I assume that we don’t have an artificial sweetener in 2024 that both avoids having a laxative effect and has the appropriate properties to subsititute for sugar in candies. I’d be delighted if someone would manage to develop one, though.

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        4 months ago

        Xylitol also have interesting properties for preventing tooth decay. Not the worst sugar alternative imo

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          4 months ago

          IIRC it doesn’t do anything prevent tooth decay, it just doesn’t cause it, unlike sugar and many other sugar substitutes.

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            4 days ago

            A quick google search, xylitol and tooth decay, should convince you otherwise. Plenty of scientific papers to dive in