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The increased push for accepting Splenda as the healthy sugar alternative is creating a severely unhealthy society! Why? If you watch TV or listen to radio you cannot miss the advertising blanketing our eyes and ears these days and all touting how healthy the sugar alternative is. Well, is it really healthy? Or is it just hype for dollars? Splenda was discovered while trying to create a new insecticide. I don't know about you but I cannot abide by putting things in my body that is intended to kill creepy crawly things! The name sucralose – Splenda - is another misleading factor. The suffix -ose is used to name sugars, not additives. Sucralose sounds very close to sucrose, table sugar, and can be confusing for consumers. I know this to be true as I’ve had lots of people email me asking why I think sucralose is bad? A more accurate name for the structure of sucralose was purposed. The name would have been trichlorogalactosucrose, but the FDA did not believe that it was necessary to use this so sucralose was allowed. Our supposed watch dogs failed us again! Another misleading - I call it a lie - Splenda is also not actually calorie-free. Sucralose does have calories, but because it is 600 times sweeter than sugar, very small amounts are needed to achieve the desired sweetness. Before you say “Oh that small amount won’t hurt me!” Read “Oh That Small Amount Won’t Hurt Me!” Advertising dollars has made it possible to hit every medium of our world but nobody is telling you how dangerous this sugar substitute really is! Therefore our advertising mediums are not doing their jobs as they are garnering a millions in advertising dollars, therefore burying their heads in the sand! If they really practice what they preach; "The public's right to know," Then don't we have the right to know about the dangers of this product? Maybe it's not exciting enough since it doesn't involve somebody's sex habits? But over the long haul you can bet it will! McNeil, a research hand of Johnson and Johnson, is the manufacturer of Splenda and defends it as healthy. Why not? It's putting billions of dollars in their pocket that’s why! The claim that it is made from sugar is a misconception about the final product. According to the book Sweet Deception, sucralose is made when sugar is treated with trityl chloride, acetic anhydride, hydrogen chlorine, thionyl chloride, and methanol in the presence of dimethylformamide, 4-methylmorpholine, toluene, methyl isobutyl ketone, acetic acid, benzyltriethlyammonium chloride, and sodium methoxide, making it unlike anything found in nature. The Splenda Web site even states that "although sucralose has a structure like sugar and a sugar-like taste, it is not natural." But who is going to their website and reading that info? Almost none! Is it healthy and safe? Not on your life! Research in animals has shown that sucralose can cause many problems in rats, mice, and rabbits, such as:
*Aborted pregnancy
If that isn't enough? In addition, it is well known that many CHEMICALS ARE MUCH MORE TOXIC IN HUMANS than in rodents (or even monkeys). For example, the chemicals that the other most popular artificial sweetener, aspartame, break down varies from 5 to 50 times more toxic in humans than in rodents. The verdict isn't in on Splenda yet. Did you know food additives are not required to be human tested? So there has been no human research done with sucralose (Splenda), so why would you risk the possible outcome? Most people will risk it when the doctor recommends it, because they believe their doctor knows best! I know that doctors never look at research or history of something a drug company tells them. They don't even read the medical journals that are delivered to their desk every month so how can he/she know if it's safe or not? Do they go to Splenda’s website to check out the rhetoric being given them? They don't!
Be vigilant and
safe and do not risk your health and/or life with Splenda! |