Duty to Warn: The Synthetic Sweetener Splenda is a Poisonous Chlorocarbon

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Duty to Warn: The Synthetic Sweetener Splenda is a Poisonous Chlorocarbon

By Gary G. Kohls, MD

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“Splenda†is the branded name of the popular synthetic sweetener and food

additive whose generic name is “sucraloseâ€. Both very sweet-sounding

names have been cunningly invented by some Food, Inc marketing team. But, the

most chemically accurate term for this ubiquitous substance is:

trichlorinated sucrose. Splenda is hidden in over 3000 common foods, candy,

beverages

and chewing gum.

 

 

Sucrose, the base molecule, is common table sugar and, being a natural

substance, can’t be patented in its natural form. However, drug and food

corporations do have their clever ways to fool Mother Nature, the public and the

FDA into granting them monopoly privileges on their way to billions of

dollars of profit, even at the expense of the public health. Splenda has

replaced the toxic sweetener NutraSweet (aspartame) as the number 1

artificial,

non-nutritive sweetener in America because of increasing awareness of its

toxicity and a cause of chronic illnesses around the world.

 

 

Splenda unproven to be safe at any dose

 

 

Sucralose is synthesized by substituting, in a chemist’s vat, three

naturally-occurring hydroxyl groups (which are attached to sucrose’s ring

structure that is composed of carbon atoms) with three chlorine atoms. This

synthetic process makes the new molecule an intensely sweet-tasting, albeit

toxic

substance that has never been proven to be safe at any dose or with

chronic use. Any yet the FDA approved it.

 

 

Dr. Betty Martini, a researcher from Duluth, Georgia (_www.dorway_

(http://www.dorway.com) .com

 

) says: " the controversy rages over Splenda. Is it safe and natural like

sugar or is it a chlorinated hydrocarbon? As lawsuits fly, consider the

chemistry of this artificial compound. "

 

 

" The FDA denied approval of aspartame for 16 years, then caved in to

political/economic pressure when Don Rumsfeld, CEO of the manufacturer, was

brought to Washington by Ronald Reagan (who was rumored to be a NutraSweet

addict which is important because dementia is a recognized adverse effect of

NutraSweet). A new FDA Commissioner was appointed to approve aspartame as a

food additive and then later became a consultant for NutraSweet's public

relations firm for $1,000/day on a 10-year contract. Forthcoming has been a

global epidemic of disability and death. One might expect the FDA to be more

cautious next time, yet it approved the toxic chlorocarbon Splenda without

hesitation and without any long term testing on human subjects. "

 

 

Other poisonous chlorocarbons

 

 

There are so many chlorocarbon molecules that have been let loose in the

environment by the chemistry industry, that it is impossible to list them

all.

 

 

Some of the common ones include the liver-destroying carbon tetrachloride;

the deadly insecticides chlordane, DDT, Lindane and many others; the

multitude of carcinogenic herbicides, including 2,4D and dioxin (Agent Orange,

of Vietnam war infamy, is still causing fetal deaths and anomalies among the

Vietnamese and death, cancer and diabetes in the exposed US soldiers 40

years later). Most people are aware of toxic PCBs

(polychlorinated biphenyls); the ozone-destroying CFCs (chlorofluorocarbon

s); the toxic polyvinyl chloride (PVC); hexachlorobenzene; the toxic and

now-banned germicide hexachlorophene; laundry bleach; and many other

carcinogenic herbicides and pesticides. Certain cellular toxins used as

chemotherapeutic agents and a host of other lethal substances, carcinogens and

even

some pharmaceutical drugs (used of course, in sub-lethal doses) are

chlorocarbons. There are no totally safe chlorocarbon molecules.

 

 

Chlorine gas is not a naturally-occurring substance in nature. It can only

be produced through electrolysis, by running an electrical current through

a saturated solution of sodium chloride (table salt). That process

produces deadly chlorine gas that then, when it comes in contact with any

organic

compound in nature (all of which contain carbon, oxygen and hydrogen atoms)

rapidly combines with the carbon molecules to form nasty compounds, many

of which are carcinogens, mutagens and/or neurotoxins.

 

 

Blowback

 

 

Chlorine gas as a lethal weapon of mass destruction was developed by

military scientists in World War I and then quickly banned. The gas was

extremely tricky to use, because of its dependence on the fickle winds (the

Germans

needed easterly winds and the Allies needed westerly ones), which

sometimes switched-back dramatically into a “friendly fire†reality.

Parenthetically, this “blowback†reality with the poison gas might have been

the origin

for the CIA term for “disastrous unintended consequences†in the spy and

war game universe.

 

 

Chlorine gas and volatile chlorocarbons contaminated the St. Louis River

valley’s air for decades until stricter regulations changed the Cloquet, MN

(upstream-from- Duluth) paper mill’s operations. Emissions from the paper

mill’s bleaching operations at that plant resulted in many smelly and

unpleasantly memorable air quality problems when I was a medical intern in

Duluth

40 years ago. At that time the mill, in addition to fouling the air, was

also discharging effluent directly into the St. Louis River, with

unprovable-in- a-court-of law toxic effects to the fish, waterfowl and those of

us who

drank the water that emptied into Lake Superior, Duluth's drinking water

source. Certainly there were human carcinogenic and immune-deficiency

consequences that have never been, and will never be, proven.

 

 

The science of poisonous chlorocarbon molecules

 

 

Chlorocarbon molecules, including sucralose, are not nutritive; hence the

claim that they have “zero caloriesâ€. Such molecules, however, adversely

affect human cellular metabolism because they are toxic to various enzyme

systems and the body’s mitochondria (the sub-cellular “hearts and lungsâ€

of

our cells that, when they sicken or die off, will cause the cell to also

sicken or die).

 

 

Sucrose is the sugar molecule that the digestive system breaks down into

two molecules of glucose. It cannot be broken down in the blood stream.

Glucose enters the cells from the capillaries and is used by all cells,

especially the brain, as fuel. The brain depends on continuous supplies of

glucose

as its major fuel and will die if deprived of the substance for even 5

minutes. Brain cells are almost as dependent on glucose as they are on oxygen.

 

 

Sucralose, however, does not metabolize into glucose. Thus the

sucralose-contamina ted person needs to obtain its life-giving glucose from

other

sources. And yet the pancreas is fooled into sensing that sucralose is glucose

and pumps out insulin, which drives the glucose in the blood into cells.

The body then senses hypoglycemia (low glucose) which produces hunger, which

is then appeased by the desire to eat, especially carbohydrates. I have

known many people, especially patients of mine, who ate a lot of carbohydrate

foods along with their hunger-inducing diet soda. This goes a long way in

explaining why most people who use diet sodas actually gain weight.

 

 

Testimony from a victim of synthetic sweeteners

 

I conclude this Duty to Warn essay with an extended quote from Dr. James

Bowen

(_http://www.wnho_ (http://www.wnho.net/) .net

), himself a victim of Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS – amyotrophic lateral

sclerosis) because of NutraSweet neurotoxicity: Dr. Bowen believes ingested

chlorocarbon damage continues with the formation of other toxins.

 

 

" 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 that deals with ingested

poisons. Chlorocarbons damage the hepatocytes, the liver's metabolic cells,

and destroy them. In test animals Splenda produced swollen livers, as do

all chlorocarbon poisons, and also calcified the kidneys of test animals in

toxicity studies. The brain and nervous system are highly subject to

metabolic toxicities and solvency damages by these chemicals. Their high

solvency

attacks the human nervous system and many other body systems including

genetics and the immune function. Thus, chlorocarbon poisoning can cause

cancer,

birth defects, and immune system destruction. These are well known effects

of Dioxin and PCBs which are known deadly chlorocarbons. "

 

 

Dr. Bowen continues: " Just like aspartame (NutraSweet) , which achieved

marketplace approval by the Food and Drug Administration when animal studies

clearly demonstrated its toxicity, sucralose also failed in clinical

trials with animals. Aspartame created brain tumors in rats. Sucralose has been

found to shrink thymus glands

(the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver inflammation in rats

and mice.

 

 

" In the coming months we can expect to see a river of media hype

expounding the virtues of Splenda/sucralose. 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.

 

 

" Synthetic chemical sweeteners are generally unsafe for human consumption.

This toxin was given the chemical name " sucralose " which is a play on the

technical name of natural sugar, sucrose. One is not the other. One is

food, the other is toxic; don't be deceived. "

 

 

For more information on aspartame and Splenda click on the Aspartame

Information List on _http://www.wnho_ (http://www.wnho.net/) .net

.. Dr. Bowen can be seen in the movie " Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World " For

the movie call 1 818 349 8822 or email _cori@soundandfury_ (ma

ilto:cori) productions.com See how aspartame was

approved

by clicking on _http://www.soundand_

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Aspartame and Splenda Toxicity Centers, _www.holisticmed_

(http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame) .com/aspartame

 

 

Russell Blaylock, M.D., has published Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills

on the subject, _www.russellblaylock_ (http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/)

md.com

 

 

Dr.Kohls is a retired Duluth, MN physician who practiced holistic mental

health care until his retirement in 2008. He writes about peace, justice and

health issues and is the editor of the occasional Preventive Psychiatry

E-Newsletter.

His website is _www.mindbodymedicin_

(http://www.mindbodymedicineduluth.com/) eduluth.com

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