Rivers and lakes loaded with artificial sweetener.....

AngInCanada
AngInCanada Posts: 947 Member
edited November 2024 in Social Groups
Seriously...like the title says. I'm shocked. Just on the news today.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/rivers-lakes-loaded-with-artificial-sweeteners-researchers-say-1.2411398

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  • greenautumn17
    greenautumn17 Posts: 322 Member
    Interesting. I wonder how the aquatic and shore plants fare with this? Or fish?
  • AngInCanada
    AngInCanada Posts: 947 Member
    Since Parente's study came out in 2012, Parente and her students have been looking at how sweetener affects a snail living in Lake Erie that forages for food. As part of that work, one student found the presence of sweetener made the animals believe there was nutrition in the water.
    The team believes the sweetener affected their foraging abilities, leaving them with fewer calories to be healthy and reproduce. And Parente thinks this could be true for other foraging animals.
  • GSD_Mama
    GSD_Mama Posts: 629 Member
    There is something called "Sugar Association"?
  • wabmester
    wabmester Posts: 2,748 Member
    Evolution will fix it. Species will adapt to the stuff and thrive. Soon we'll be faced with a fish obesity epidemic.

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  • greenautumn17
    greenautumn17 Posts: 322 Member
    edited June 2015
    wabmester wrote: »
    Evolution will fix it. Species will adapt to the stuff and thrive. Soon we'll be faced with a fish obesity epidemic.

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    ROFL! Well, if we wanted fattier cuts of fish...
  • DittoDan
    DittoDan Posts: 1,850 Member
    wabmester wrote: »
    Evolution will fix it. Species will adapt to the stuff and thrive. Soon we'll be faced with a fish obesity epidemic.

    Picture-9.png

    ROFL! Well, if we wanted fattier cuts of fish...

    ^^^^THIS^^^^^
  • totaloblivia
    totaloblivia Posts: 1,164 Member
    Great photo!
  • KarlaYP
    KarlaYP Posts: 4,436 Member
    Lol!
  • SRJennings
    SRJennings Posts: 126 Member
    You guys slay me! Funny fat fish. He needs to go keto!
  • SRJennings
    SRJennings Posts: 126 Member
    Terrible that we are poisoning our environment with nasty carbage!
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