Splenda - the new artificial sweetener
DON'T TOUCH IT!
Artificial Sweetener Explodes Internally –
Avoid it !
It works great as an ant killer though.
By Shane Ellison, M.Sc.
If there were a contest for the best example of total disregard for human life
the victor would be McNeil Nutritionals – makers of Splenda™.
Manufacturers of Vioxx™ and Lipitor™ would tie for a very distant second.
McNeil Nutritionals is the undisputed drug-pushing champion for disguising their
drug Splenda™ 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, Vioxx™ and Lipitor™ 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 Splenda™ in place of
real sugar (sucrose).
Splenda™ 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 Splenda™ hoax is costing gullible Americans $187 million
annually. (1) While many people "wonder" about the safety of
Splenda™ they rarely question it. Despite its' many "unknowns"
and inherent dangers, Splenda™ 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 Splenda™ 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:
Splenda™ contains a potential poison
Splenda™ 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, Splenda™ pushers assert that sucralose is "made from
sugar so it tastes like sugar." Sucralose is as close to sugar as
Windex™ is to ocean water.
The RNFOC poses a real and present danger to all Splenda™ 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 Vioxx™
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.
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