Full transcript
0:00sometimes you just fancy a nice cold can
0:02of Coke Zero and I know that there are
0:04some Geniuses on the internet that go
0:05just drink water but what if you don't
0:07fancy water and you want something cold
0:09and fizzy to quench that thirst that you
0:11had so you find a can of Coke Zero if
0:13you think Diet Coke's better than Coke
0:14Zero you should leave the video now just
0:16about when you're about to take a Sit
0:17what's that it's your annoying Auntie
0:19who thinks the world's flat the
0:20conspiracy theory is always popping up
0:22at every single family meal you're like
0:24shh
0:24what's up but you don't quite have the
0:28confidence you need to refute your mad
0:29Auntie as to why Coke Zero is completely
0:31fine when she seems to think you'd be
0:33better off having the sugary alternative
0:35versus a Coke Zero so in this video I'm
0:37going to give you all the evidence you
0:39need to shut her up next time she pipes
0:42up when you want to counter Coke Zero so
0:44let's get into it
0:46oh look at that techers look at that
0:49it's one of the main reasons people lose
0:50their about this stuff is because
0:51of the word carcinogen and what
0:53carcinogen mean is something like a
0:55substance that could potentially lead
0:57and give us cancer so group three we've
0:59got things like magnetic fields we've
1:01got coffee we've even got fluorescent
1:03lights and for all of those things
1:04there's inadequate evidence to say that
1:06it's carcinogenic then moving up the
1:08realm of carcinogenic we've got group 2A
1:10and 2B the easiest way to determine the
1:12difference between these two is it's
1:14possible but there's no significant
1:16evidence now the classification between
1:172B and 2A in 2A there might be some
1:20animal studies and in 2B there's not
1:22really any animal studies now straight
1:25away those buffings that are coming out
1:26going oh but have you seen this study
1:28it's in rats rats rodents so I have a
1:31question for you are you a rat if yes
1:34maybe worry about aspartame if not
1:37we need 100 grams of beef it's harder
1:39than I thought it would be
1:40and in 2B we've got things like pickled
1:42vegetables and aloe vera extract no
1:45one's ever stopping you with a pickled
1:47vegetable okay
1:48okay cancel and in two way there's
1:50exposures from chemicals in hairdressing
1:53and there's things like red meat let's
1:54go on a quick tangent with the red meat
1:56thing come to me there are a lot of
1:58vegans on the internet that say that red
1:59meat gives you cancer long story short
2:01it doesn't but when you look at massive
2:03populations of people you could say that
2:05people that eat a lot of red meat are
2:07more likely to get cancer but that is
2:09correlation not causation because what I
2:11won't think about is this people that
2:13live healthy diets actually are more
2:14very diet of more leaner Meats white
2:16Meats like fish poultry turkey whatever
2:19and people that have a rubbish diet of
2:21burgers bacon kebabs takeaways so
2:24actually when we extrapolate good word
2:26the data we could have a stronger
2:28argument that processed meats are
2:30correlated with more likeliness chances
2:32of getting cancer whereas red meat in a
2:34hole not really that much evidence but
2:36it's not the meat that's giving the
2:38person cancer it's just when looking at
2:40those massive populations of people the
2:42people that are not Health seeking that
2:43don't give a about bedtimes
2:45vegetables sleep the people that vape
2:47and drink every night they eat more
2:50processed Meats not the meat giving them
2:51cancer it's them giving them cancer
2:53because they're not Health seeking
2:54populations picture the most unhealthy
2:56person you can in your mind they get a
2:57lot processed meat have you seen
2:59Talladega Nights do you ever think you
3:01sound like John Gerard I have come to
3:03defeat you should I come back
3:05so the reason that so many people on the
3:07internet losing their about
3:08Aspartame is it was given the
3:10classification of 2B in the carcinogenic
3:12list and best we don't leave out group
3:15one
3:17but you know what also resides within
3:19group two beers being a carcinogen
3:23mobile phones so that Auntie is pissing
3:25you off at the table you can go yeah
3:27well if you care that much about your
3:28health why are using the smartphone
3:31and a quick side tangent would be as
3:33well if people are drinking Coke Zero
3:35instead of traditional Coke and that
3:37could help create a calorie deficit
3:38through reducing the amount of calories
3:39coming in that could help them with
3:40obesity surely that would be the better
3:42of two evils when we know that obesity
3:44is a massive predictor of not only
3:46developing cancer but other terminal
3:47conditions stroke heart attack
3:49cardiovascular disease and even chances
3:51of hospitalization with covid oh fat
3:53shaming shut up studies show that up to
3:5650 milligrams per kilogram of aspartame
3:58is completely safe
4:00so what does that look like in the real
4:02world context
4:06ah occupational hazard so if Studies
4:09have found that consuming up to 50
4:10milligrams of aspartame per kilogram is
4:12a safe amount how much does that mean in
4:14Coke Zero so if we take 50 milligrams
4:17times 96 which is my body weight that
4:19works out to 4 800 milligrams of
4:21aspartame a day that I could have being
4:22a safe amount now if there's 87
4:24milligrams in each kind of Coke Zero how
4:26many cans does that equate to per day
4:28within the safe range well ladies and
4:30gentlemen this is the safe amount of
4:33aspartame and Coke Zero that you could
4:34have a day and all of those
4:3855 cans a day within the safe range of
4:41aspartame a day now if you're consuming
4:44this many cans one uni dentists are
4:47going to be on pretty good terms and two
4:48you probably have bigger concerns at
4:50play here than the sweetener involved in
4:52this oddco is safe to say that you're
4:54probably mental and the studies on
4:55aspartame have actually got something
4:57called a factor 100 safety margin which
4:59means they've actually low board the
5:01amount that you could consume in a day
5:02and set that as a safe marker you can
5:04actually have 10 times this amount and
5:06it would still be within the safe range
5:07there are people much smarter than me in
5:09the industry who have looked at a lot
5:10more data than I've looked at and
5:11they've said you could actually have up
5:13to a thousand cans of diet soda a day
5:15and still be within the Realms of what's
5:17considered safe but I know what you're
5:19thinking
5:20you've chemically produced something in
5:22the lab that you can put in a beverage
5:24to make it taste sweet without them to
5:25put sugar in it surely the absorption
5:27means the human body of aspartame is
5:29only going to cause havoc and wreck our
5:31guts and our systems and breaking it
5:33down is going to absolutely ruin us and
5:36be unhealthy for all of our organs so
5:38let's look into the science of that too
5:40and there's actually something called a
5:42dose response when we look at all the
5:43things that were on the board before the
5:45higher the dose of that carcinogen the
5:48worse the outcome would be the more
5:49obese you were the more likely you get
5:51cancer the more you smoke the more
5:52likely you are to get lung cancer the
5:54more you drink you get it the higher the
5:55dose of the carcinogen the worse your
5:57situation would be weirdly in the
5:59studies that we have about aspartame
6:00people that consume more of it actually
6:02a decreased risk of developing cancer so
6:05as far as a dose response it's still not
6:07really in the Realms of seeing it as a
6:09dangerous thing even consuming that many
6:11cans a day
6:13so when one can of diet soda or Coke
6:15Zero enters the human body it is broken
6:18down 10 into methanol 40 into aspartic
6:22acid and 50 into phenylalanine so what
6:24does that mean well although these
6:26compounds can seem scary one glass of
6:28tomato juice contains six times as much
6:31methanol as a can of diet soda and one
6:33egg contains 34 times as much aspartic
6:36acid as a can of Coke Zero and a hundred
6:39grams of beef contains between 16 and 32
6:42times as much phenylinine as a can of
6:44diet soda so when you look at what this
6:46is broken down to in the human body we
6:48can't really build a strong argument
6:49that it's something we should be worried
6:50about at the end of the day life is
6:52about making the best choices possible
6:53not the best choices although we could
6:55argue that a glass of water is better
6:57for you than a can of Coke Zero if you
6:58feel like a can of Coke Zero you should
7:00have one similarly to it's obvious we
7:01could say never drink alcohol you could
7:03live the healthiest life possible but if
7:05you fancy a beer nothing is going to
7:08quench your thirst for a beer like a
7:09beer but we make the best choices
7:11possible maybe you just have five pints
7:13instead out of 15 but everything in
7:15moderation remember when looking at
7:17things that are poisonous it's often in
7:18the dose you can drink too much water
7:20and poison yourself so stop listening to
7:22your annoying auntie and instead think
7:24about your cousin Fat Bob he's a big boy
7:27Big Bob he needs some interventions he
7:29can bring into his life to make him
7:30healthier because we all know he's a
7:32walking heart attack and saying to him
7:34hey Bob instead of you having normal
7:37sugar-filled beverages a Coke just have
7:39some Coke Zero we could see a reduction
7:41of several hundred calories a day and
7:43that compounded over a long period of
7:44time means that you could put yourself
7:46in a calorie deficit without having to
7:47exercise more then over time he's
7:49starting to feel better the Coke Zero is
7:50starting to create deficit for him we
7:52might feel more inclined to get a gym
7:53membership take more bloody steps in a
7:55day and make more health-seeking
7:57behaviors this is one of the easiest
7:59means that we can use to get people to
8:02reduce their calorie intakes without
8:03flipping their lives upside down and
8:05when we know that long-term fat loss is
8:07mostly governed by sustainability and
8:09adherability the evidence points Us in
8:11One Direction Coke Zero is it's
8:13completely fine there are way worse
8:15things in your life you should be
8:15worried about than a can of flipping
8:17Coke Zero