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You Bought the Splenda Lie? © By Lena Sanchez |
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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 good for you? 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. After researching the name and what is it can do to you I knew it was bad and didn't hesitate to tell my newsletter readers. Since then I receive ongoing emails from people asking why I think sucralose is bad? What I found out is really easy to discover if you look for it... Sucrose is not sucralose! A more accurate chemical name for sucralose was purposed and would have been trichlorogalactosucrose, but the FDA did not believe that it was necessary to use this so sucralose was allowed. Our supposed health watch dogs failed us again! Another misleading - I call it a lie - about Splenda is that it is 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 that little bit won't hurt read “Oh That Small Amount Won’t Hurt Me!” to find out what small amounts add up to! Advertising dollars have made it possible to hit every medium of our world to reach every person but that media is not telling you how dangerous this sugar substitute really is! Therefore our advertising mediums are not doing their jobs as they are garnering 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 impact your sex life! 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! The Splenda claim is that it's made from sugar! A total fallacy or a nicer term misconception about the final product. According to scientists who tried to stop distribution of Splenda and Aspartame is found in the book Sweet Deception. First, 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 bothering to learn that info? Almost nobody! Advertising is very smart and people listen or it wouldn't be so effective. Is this substitute sweetener 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 reason to not consume it? Then that a scientific fact is; many CHEMICALS ARE MUCH MORE TOXIC IN HUMANS than in rodents (or even monkeys). Double to triple the reactions! 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 amount of toxic absorption verdict isn't in on Splenda yet and may never be if we depend on the makers. Did you know food additives - Splenda & Aspartame is considered an additive - are not required to be human tested? So there has never been human research done on sucralose (Splenda) or aspartame so why would you risk the possible outcome? NO Aspartame is not better only slightly less toxic. Read Aspartame Warnings! 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! They depend on those drug/chemical companies to tell them what they want them to know!!!!
Be vigilant and
safe and do not risk your health and/or life with Splenda!
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