[–] 3 points 2 months ago

chloramphenicol - a banned for use in livestock antibiotic

So, the effects are rare. But China turned away beef that tested positive. Then the US government announced a mystery-origin meat to help lower prices. Maybe it was a false positive and a coincidence on the trade deal timing.

But I remember when mad cow disease was a concern. It was rare too. But also not a good way to die.

I feel like we are living the hypothetical, "if a bowl of skittles has up to 1% of them poisoned, do you eat them because your odds are decent?"

If I was only going to vomit a couple times, maybe if I'm hungry enough. If I'll die an agonizing death from a poisoned skittle, then no, I'll ty to find something else.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    How can you ignore diabetes and the other risk factors that lead to using sugar-free products and are huge risk factors in themselves?

    At least exclude certain ones.

    Plenty of people use xyitol products for other reasons. For instance, I just bought a pack of xylitol gum to carry because I won't be able to brush my teeth during the day. Gum with sugar makes my teeth feel worse.

    Exclude smokers and people with uncontrolled diabetes and cholesterol at least.

    Study the gym goers that want to eat their sugar as treats and use xylitol drinks or breath mints daily.

    How much caffeine was in everyone's system? Alcohol? Were the other blood level markers in range?

    With no controls, it could be anything. Maybe they were all covering cigarette and beer breath with mints when they had a cardiac event.

    I hate studies like this.

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