bitful

I was reading how big companies have started to realise that 'your home page is Google', and the given example was how if you search for Diet Coke the third result is 'Don't Drink the Diet Coke', which links aspartame to depression and bipolar disorder.

Of course, I had to check. I could not find the result in question on google.co.uk (it is #4 if you search on google.com though). However, I started reading the following articles found among the first ten search results:

• One month without Diet Coke (a guy ditches it and feels so great he never goes back)
• Diet Coke to drop additive in DNA damage fear (phased out by the end of the year, i.e. we're all still drinking it)
• Behind the Label: Diet Coke (benzoates combined with acids in Diet Coke create carcinogen benzene)

This is nothing I didn't already know, but seeing it once again is going to make me think twice before grabbing a coke next time I feel like one.

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