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Old 02-21-2012, 05:14 PM
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Things are not always as they appear!

Hi everyone, This is for those of you that use artificial sweetener.

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Toxic Chemical Being Sold as a Health-Conscious Sweetener

Posted By ANH-USA On February 21, 2012 @ 5:00 pm In Healthcare Reform, Uncategorized | No Comments

splendaessentials [1]Splenda Essentials pretend to be health-supporting, when in fact they seem to have more in common with pesticides than with sugar.

Sucralose, sold under the brand name Splenda, is simply chlorinated sugar; in chemical terms, it is a chlorocarbon. The idea behind this is that the body would no longer recognize it as sugar. But, as Johns Hopkins-trained physician and biochemist James Bowen, MD [2], points out, chlorine is “nature’s Doberman attack dog—a highly excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach, disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid.” Common chlorocarbons include chlordane and DDT, a product so harmful that it is now banned for agricultural use the world over.

Now Splenda is selling a product called Splenda Essentials [3]. Different formulations contain B vitamins, antioxidants (vitamins C and E), or fiber. The marketing and advertising appear to be targeting health-conscious people who are interested in vitamins and nutrition—despite the fact that Splenda is highly toxic and has no place in a healthy diet.

Splenda’s advertising says the addition of B1, B5, and B6 “help support a healthy metabolism.” The antioxidant product “contains vitamin C and E, like those found in fruits and vegetables,” while the fiber product is touted as containing “one gram of healthy fiber.” It is worth noting that the regular Splenda product already contains fiber—the powdery dextrose and/or maltodextrin that forms the carrier for the sweetener—but only between 0.5 and 1.0 grams of it. For the fiber product, they bumped it up an even 1.0 grams. Whoopee.

For the vitamins, Splenda has added 20% of the recommended daily allowance; for the fiber, they’ve added 0.03% of the RDA. But let’s compare those amounts with the recommendations from the late scientist, researcher, and physician Dr. Emanuel Cheraskin of the International Academy of Science:



B1


B5


B6


C


E


Fiber

RDA [4]


1.2 mg


5 mg


15 mg


85 mg


15 mg (22.35 IU)


32 mg

Amount per packet


0.24 mg


1 mg


3 mg


17 mg


4.5 IU


1 mg

Cheraskin [5]


25 mg


100–200 mg


25 mg


1,000 mg


450 IU


With the minute amounts of nutrients per packet, one would need to be consuming unconscionable numbers of packets to make any impact at all on one’s health—that is, provided one weren’t also consuming the sucralose itself! As we noted last year [6], Splenda alters the microflora in the intestine and “exerts numerous adverse effects,” according to a Duke University study [7], including an increase in body weight (not quite what a “diet aid” is supposed to do!) and an elevation of liver enzymes, which hurts the bioavailability of nutrients.

In “The Lethal Science of Splenda, a Poisonous Chlorocarbon [2],” Dr. Bowen says that “any chlorocarbons not directly excreted from the body intact can cause immense damage to the processes of human metabolism and, eventually, our internal organs. The liver is a detoxification organ which deals with ingested poisons. Chlorocarbons damage the hepatocytes, the liver’s metabolic cells, and destroy them.”

Dr. Bowen notes that the high solvency of chlorocarbons like Splenda attacks the human nervous system and can produce cancer, birth defects, and immune system destruction. In test animals, Splenda produced swollen livers (as do all chlorocarbon poisons), calcified their kidneys, shrunk their thymus glands (the biological seat of immunity) and produced liver inflammation.

Our colleagues at ANH-Europe point out other adverse effects in animals [8] as a result of sucralose ingestion: DNA damage in gastrointestinal organs, increase in the number of normal cells in the surface tissue of the kidney, hemorrhagic degeneration of the adrenal cortex (which regulates carbohydrate and fat metabolism, salt, and water balance), incidence of cataracts, marked gastrointestinal disturbance, and deaths in pregnant rabbits and aborted rabbit fetuses. Splenda’s adverse effects in humans include headaches and migraines and a long list of consumer-reported side effects including skin rashes/flushing, panic-like agitation, dizziness and numbness, diarrhea, swelling, muscle aches, intestinal cramping, bladder issues, and stomach pain.

Splenda has replaced aspartame as the number one artificial sweetener in foods and beverages; aspartame’s popularity declined after the public learned that that it is both a neurotoxin and an underlying cause of chronic illness. As Dr. Bowen warns, “We should not be fooled again into accepting the safety of a toxic chemical on the blessing of the FDA and saturation advertising. In terms of potential long-term human toxicity we should regard sucralose with its chemical cousin DDT, the insecticide now outlawed because of its horrendous long term toxicities at even minute trace levels in human, avian, and mammalian tissues.”

ANH-USA is filing a citizen petition with the Federal Trade Commission [9] regarding Splenda’s deceptive advertising. Splenda’s online marketing includes a series of YouTube videos [10] called Splenda Health Essentials, which features an ADA-certified [11] Registered Dietitian giving people health advice—though we might call it “natural health lite”—including prominent endorsements of Splenda Essentials. Their marketing clearly targets health-conscious people interested in nutrition and trying to pass off a toxic chemical as healthy.

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Old 02-21-2012, 05:29 PM
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Chemicals are bad, mmmkay

And I am an organic chemist
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Throw all those artificial sweeteners in the trash - good old natural sugar or nothing!
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Re: Things are not always as they appear!

I was hooked on splenda about a year ago. TH
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Should sodium CHLORide be avoided, too? Must be a deadly poison. :trollface:


That being said, i still prefer real sugar.
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Re: Things are not always as they appear!

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Should sodium CHLORide be avoided, too? Must be a deadly poison. :trollface:


That being said, i still prefer real sugar.
Definately... That's why I use Sodium as a seasoning.
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I've read sucralose can not be broken down by or absorbed into the body, at least not entirely (15% typically accepted absorption rate). It should just pass harmlessly through the digestive system or urinary tract, but that may depend on your own ability to break down the molecule. There exists reports of side-effects from people who are apparently sensitive to it.

If that [lack of absorption] isn't true, then that could be a problem, but even some of the anti-Splenda research I've seen explains that the chlorine in sucralose is bound by covalent bond which tends to be stable.

If Splenda worries you it may be worth your time to conduct your own tolerance study. I did one myself and found that consumption of artificially sweetened foods negatively affects my complexion, so I avoid them.


While sucralose is an interesting side story in the extensive list of things worth worrying about, concerning the food supply and possible corruption of the FDA I think there are far more pressing matters to exhaust your time.

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It amazes me what consumers will snatch off store shelves simply to avoid the consumption of what is essentially a distillate of cane or beet juice. (Then again, I drink Coke Zero.)

On the subject of poison: When I was little I ate one of my grandmother's saccharine tablets, figuring if that one tiny pill could sweeten a whole drink, it must be really, really sweet. Not so smart.

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Re: Things are not always as they appear!

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Throw all those artificial sweeteners in the trash - good old natural sugar or nothing!
Add corn syrup to that trash pile and you've got the right idea.

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Should sodium CHLORide be avoided, too?
A chloride salt != a chlorinated organic compound.

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the chlorine in sucralose is bound by covalent bond which tends to be stable.
This guy knows what's up.
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Add corn syrup to that trash pile and you've got the right idea.

Throwback Pepsi FTMFW! actually i stopped drinking pop about 2months ago, but Pepsi goes so good with pizza ..... good thing beer does, too.
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Tsssh, none of that bothers me. I will just eat enough gluten to beat the villi in my intestines into never absorbing a thing ever again and eat what I please after that. Of course that may not work and may have a few negative side affects.
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