Comment on Common sugar substitute shown to impair brain cells, boost stroke risk

• vxx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have a rule of thumb. If experts and doctors recommend pregnant woman to not eat or drink anything, it’s probably better to stay away from it.

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  • XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’m probably not going to stay away from honey.

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    • vxx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s no recommendation against honey while pregnant, only for infants

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      • XTL@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ah, I might be misremembering that. Thanks.

        I have some pretty local sources for (afaik) pretty good honey that I like.

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  • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sushi! How can you not?

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    • vxx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Mercury

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      • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Hmm, can’t really argue with that

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      • livingcoder@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I avoid all seafood for this very reason. With all of the constant deregulations and fines that are paid as the cost of doing business… the water just isn’t safe anymore.

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  • livingcoder@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t know of any guidance about avoiding Erythritol when pregnant, but aside from that, the sentiment is generally reasonable but you’ll still end up avoiding foods that would only negatively impact a pregnancy. You can imagine the other side of that coin: are you taking vitamin supplements that are meant to be taken by someone who is pregnant? I would imagine not, but then the question becomes “Why not?”. (not trying to be hostile, just making a point)

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    • vxx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “Why not”

      Because I only have to support my own body instead of growing another. On the other hand, whatever can harm an embryo because it is much smaller than me, will in a way also harm me.

      I wont need Vitamin B-12 as much as a pregnant woman, but it wont harm to stay vary of things that might harm the child.

      Just to add to my initial comment. There’s studies about the most common sweeteners, but they put the risk at low, but wont recommend anything because the datatset is too low to come to a real conclusion. So it might not even be problematic. Would you risk it though?

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      • livingcoder@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        When you say “I don’t need X because I’m not pregnant” it looks like a contradiction when you say “I should avoid X even though I’m not pregnant”. There are specific reasons purely because of a person being pregnant that they should avoid or consume certain matter, so I see the blanket statement as overly simplistic (but not wildly outrageous). When we had our recent child we avoided everything that had any chance of a negative impact (and it’s easy to do when the pregnant person is a knowledgeable nurse who takes care of pregnant mothers every day). Why take a chance, but it’s really “Why should a pregnant person take a chance?”.

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