Splenda- So Sweet?

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Artificial Sweetener Explodes Internally

By Shane Ellison, M.Sc.

 

Copyright 2006© www.healthmyths.net

 

If there were a contest for the best example of total disregard for

human life the victor would be McNeil Nutritionals - makers of

SplendaTM. Manufacturers of VioxxTM and LipitorTM would tie for a

very distant second.

 

McNeil Nutritionals is the undisputed drug-pushing champion for

disguising their drug SplendaTM as a sweetener. Regardless of its

drug qualities and potential for side-effects, McNeil is dead set on

putting it on every kitchen table in America. Apparently, VioxxTM

and LipitorTM makers can't stoop so low as to deceptively masquerade

their drug as a candy of sort. There is no question that their

products are drugs and by definition come with negative side-

effects. Rather than sell directly to the consumer, these losers

have to go through the painful process of using doctors to prescribe

their dangerous goods.

 

A keen student in corporate drug dealing, McNeil learned from

aspartame and saccharine pushers that if a drug tastes sweet then let

the masses eat it in their cake. First though, you have to create a

facade of natural health. They did this using a cute trade name that

kind of sounds like splendid and packaged it in pretty colors.

Hypnotized, the masses were duped instantly. As unquestionably as a

dog humps your leg, millions of diabetics (and non-diabetics) blindly

eat sucralose under the trade name SplendaTM in place of real sugar

(sucrose).

 

SplendaTM was strategically released on April fools day in 1998.

This day is reserved worldwide for hoaxes and practical jokes on

friends and family, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible.

McNeil certainly succeeded.

 

The splendid SplendaTM hoax is costing gullible Americans $187

million annually. (1) While many people " wonder " about the safety of

SplendaTM they rarely question it. Despite its' many " unknowns " and

inherent dangers, SplendaTM demand has grown faster than its supply.

No longer do I have to question my faith in fellow Man. He is not a

total idiot, just a gullible one. McNeil jokesters are laughing all

the way to the bank.

 

Splenda is not as harmless as McNeil wants you to believe. A mixture

of sucralose, maltodextrine and dextrose (a detrimental simple

sugar), each of the not-so-splendid SplendaTM ingredients has

downfalls. Aside from the fact that it really isn't " sugar and

calorie free, " here is one big reason to avoid the deceitful

mix...Think April fools day:

 

SplendaTM contains a potential poison

 

SplendaTM contains the drug sucralose. This chemical is 600 times

sweeter than sugar. To make sucralose, chlorine is used. Chlorine

has a split personality. It can be harmless or it can be life

threatening.

 

In combo with sodium, chlorine forms a harmless " ionic bond " to yield

table salt. Sucralose makers often highlight this worthless fact to

defend its' safety. Apparently, they missed the second day of

Chemistry 101 - the day they teach " covalent " bonds.

 

When used with carbon, the chlorine atom in sucralose forms

a " covalent " bond. The end result is the historically

deadly " organochlorine " or simply: a Really-Nasty Form of Chlorine

(RNFOC).

 

Unlike ionic bonds, covalently bound chlorines are a big no-no for

the human body. They yield insecticides, pesticides, and herbicides -

not something you want in the lunch box of your precious child.

It's therefore no surprise that the originators of sucralose,

chemists Hough and Phadnis, were attempting to design new

insecticides when they discovered it! It wasn't until the young

Phadnis accidentally tasted his new " insecticide " that he learned it

was sweet. And because sugars are more profitable than insecticides,

the whole insecticide idea got canned and a new sweetener called

Splenda got packaged.

 

To hide its' origin, SplendaTM pushers assert that sucralose is " made

from sugar so it tastes like sugar. " Sucralose is as close to sugar

as WindexTM is to ocean water.

 

The RNFOC poses a real and present danger to all SplendaTM users. It

is risky because the RNFOC confers a molecule with a set of super

powers that wreak havoc on the human body. For example, Agent

Orange, used in the U.S Army's herbicidal warfare program, is a

RNFOC. Exposure can lead to Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkins

lymphoma as well as diabetes and various forms of cancer! Other

shocking examples are the war gas phosgene, chlordane and lindane.

(2) The RNFOC is lethal because it allows poisons to be fat soluble

while rendering the natural defense mechanisms of the body helpless.

 

A poison that is fat soluble is akin to a bomb exploding internally.

It invades every nook and cranny of the body. Cell walls and DNA -

the genetic map of human life - become nothing more than potential

casualties of war when exposed. Sucralose is only 25% water soluble.

(3) Which means a vast majority of it may explode internally. In

general, this results in weakened immune function, irregular heart

beat, agitation, shortness of breath, skin rashes, headaches, liver

and kidney damage, birth defects, cancer, cancer and more cancer -

for generations! (1)

 

McNeil asserts that their studies prove it to be safe for everyone,

even children. That's little assurance. Learning from the VioxxTM

debacle (and many others highlighted in my book Health Myths Exposed)

which killed tens of thousands, we know that studies can be bought

and results fabricated.

 

Some things are worth dying for. Splenda is not one of them. What

people think of as a food is a drug or slow poison - little

distinction there. It wouldn't be wise to bet your health on it. If

safe, sucralose would be the first molecule in human history that

contained a RNFOC fit for human consumption. This fact alone makes

sucralose questionable for use as a sweetener, if not instantly

detrimental to our health. Only time will tell. Until then, Ill

stick to the safe and naturally occurring stevia plant to satisfy my

occasional sweet tooth in 2007.

 

Be forewarned though, as long as drugs can be legally disguised as

sweeteners, watch out for drugs being disguised as vitamins...Oh

wait, they are already doing that - think Lipitor.

 

About the Author

 

Shane Ellison holds a master's degree in organic chemistry and has

first-hand experience in drug design. After abandoning his career as

a medical chemist, he dedicated himself to stopping prescription-drug

hype. He is an internationally recognized authority on therapeutic

nutrition and author of Health Myths Exposed, The Hidden Truth about

Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs and The AM-PM Fat Loss Discovery. His

books and FREE Life Saving Health Briefs can be found at

www.healthmyths.net.

 

References:

 

1. Joseph Mercola, Kendra Pearsall. Sweet Deception. Nelson Books.

ISBN: 0785221794. Copyright 2006.

 

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_orange

 

3. Caroline W. Sham. Splenda - A Safe and Sweet Alternative to

Sugar. Nutrition Bytes. 2005. Vol. 10. Issue 2. Article 5.

 

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