- There is a veritable explosion in the use of the controversial
sweetener Sucralose -or Splenda- IT'S EVERYWHERE! IT'S EVERYWHERE, just
like Chickenman! This is because it looks so "perfect" on paper,
I suspect... no calories, tastes like sugar, and it's cheap.
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- Wow, what could be the down side? Cue the tense music.
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- Below I will honestly try to give you both sides of the
argument, balanced and fair, so you can decide for yourself, but first
I want to point out how one heavy-hitter in the supplement industry, Doc
Wallach of Youngevity INC, has made a silly, albeit outrageous, claim with
regard to Sucralose. Wallach? He's the famous "Dead Doctors Don't
Lie" guy on the radio. Unfortunately? He doesn't practice what he
preaches regarding, well... ...lies!
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- Case in point, a caller to his radio show inquired, straight
out, if Sucralose -the sweetener in Splenda, sweetening the Doc's top selling
product "Nature's Whey" Protein Powder- was safe. Doc said it
was a no-calorie sweetener made from Molasses, so he "loved"
Sucralose!
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- ...Molasses!?! Great suffering ZOT, reader! There is
but one tenuous connection I can make between Sucralose and Molasses. This
is that Molasses is a by-product of Sugar production. See, after they
extract all the sugar out of the cane juice, the waste that is left over
is the Molasses. That's a connection?
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- No, it's the sucrose (table-sugar), actually, that is
then made into Sucralose - it is not made from Molasses. The ugly truth
is that Sucralose is made from SUGAR by using a long, convoluted, and controversial
series of CHEMICAL processes centered on the removal of 3 hydroxyl groups
out of the normal sugar molecule, and then replacing those hydroxyl groups
with 3 chlorine atoms! This new "Chlorinated" and potentially
very toxic Sucralose molecule is the problematic result!
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- Consequently, I'm compelled to agree with the #1 web
holistic Doctor, Dr. Mercola, and many others I might add, like my buddy
The Leaf Lady - she's only been a Naturopatic Doctor for 50 years!
- These folks report that Sucralose is not safe, specifically,
because it is a manmade "Chlorinated-Molecule" of the most dubious
provenance!
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- Howsoever, this paper is not just to convince you Sucralose
is unsafe, even though I hope I do - see, this paper also addresses how
a named scientist like Dr. Wallach could celebrate the safety of this controversial
product by lying about where it comes from, and certainly never mentioning
that pesky little injection of 3 toxic atoms into a sugar molecule, fundamentally
creating Sucralose... yes, reader, Sucralose is "created," remember...
a Franken-food!
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- Doubtlessly, it must be obvious to you, reader, that
Doc Wallach prefers you to think it is just some natural, harmless "part"
of the "Molasses" you get after Granny stirs up a big pot of
"cane-squeezins" on the wood fire! Small hyperbole, perhaps,
but Doc Wallach certainly never mentions the Chlorination process that
has so many top holistic investigators crying foul!
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- Do a web search for anything resembling "How Sucralose
is made" or "Sucralose processing," without mentioning Chlorine
or Molasses in your query... AND then every time we see the word "Molasses"
pop up in the 100,000 hits or so, I will give you $1000... but all you
have to do is give me ONE Dollar every time you see the words "Chlorine"
or "Chlorination"... I will win about $100,000... that's 100,000
hits to your ZERO hits for that silly molasses query.
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- It seems plain there is NO "molasses connection"-that
I can see-but please, show me where I'm wrong care of alan068@centurytel.net
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- The 2 mainstream views on Sucralose are:
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- (1).. "Sucralose is a chlorinated sugar molecule
that is not biocompatible with humans, rendering this New "sugar"
unrecognizable to us, so it is not metabolized, meaning it passes harmlessly
out of your body! Additionally, the FDA has found it to be "safe."
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- (2).. The opposing view is that, regardless of human
compatibility, it is loaded with "organic compounds" so some
of the Sucralose is metabolized anyway! Just how much seems to be the
big question... lastly, who cares what the professionally bankrupt "spawns
of Satan" at the FDA say, anyway!
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- You also hear..."Sucralose is safe, much like table-salt,
which contains a Chlorine atom, but the toxic Chlorine atom stays locked
up in the salt & is not metabolized." Hoo, boy!
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- OK, let me take issue with the preceding seriously silly
argument - while describing how this all works. Forgive a little high school
chemistry:
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- "Sugar" is a hydrocarbon comprised of 12 carbon
atoms with a hydroxyl group (hydrogen & oxygen) stuck to each one.
To create Sucralose, 3 of these hydroxyl groups are chemically replaced
with chlorine atoms as I said above. This changes the sugar from a hydro-carbon
to a ...chloro-carbon.
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- See, chlorocarbons are not biocompatible with human physiology,
so it would appear that much -if not most- of the stuff goes through w/o
being metabolized. The problem is, then, just how much, if any, is actually
metabolized or broken apart... to release the VERY aggressive and toxic
chlorine atom! The chlorine atom is the "Pit-Bull" of dangerous
free-radicals, savaging every cell in your body!
- No hyperbole there!
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- Consider, even the Splenda website itself is careful
to say that the sucralose molecule passes harmlessly through you... and
"ALMOST NONE" is metabolized -hey wait a minute!- doesn't that
word "almost" imply that "some" is metabolized? Just
"how much", eh? Well, THAT'S the question, neatly!
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- Because I have no way of knowing for sure, I am going
to go with the conservative figure that Dr. Mercola finds to be closest
to reality - which is 15% of the sucralose will be converted... billions
of rabid little pit-bulls released to wander... yow! This seems reasonable
considering the US FDA's test in 1998 (http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/fr980403.html.)
found that 11 to 27 % of the chlorine atoms are released! Yow again!
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- I say "conservative" because others claim 25%
is metabolized - forgetting that there is a Japanese study having that
figure up to40%! Yow to the MAX!
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- The preceding, though bad enough, it remains, by the
way: you cannot use the duplicitously bogus sodium-chloride (table-salt)
comparison! Here's why:
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- Salt -or sodium-chloride- is completely INorganic and
held together by the powerful "Ionic Bond"! So, for those 2
reasons, the body does not even try to metabolize it!
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- Chlorocarbons, on the other hand, contain organic compounds
like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, which -being held together with
the weaker "Covalent Bond" - encourages your liver to go after
those self-same ORGANIC compounds! See, your liver WILL try to metabolize
the Chlorocarbon molecule! So from "maybe almost none" up to
perhaps 40% is metabolized...
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- See the problem?
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- ...And it would certainly be wrong if Doctor Wallach
used the FDA as a credible verification of Sucralose safety. You know,
given he is foreverpointing out how the FDA is "in the tank"
for "whomever" and "whatever"... a demonstrable fact
I regularly point out myself. It remains he still has opportunity to ride
in on FDA coat-tails and doesn't have to say a word in fact. The Doc won't
sneer at that FDA approval.
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- Lastly? "Sucralose is safe because chlorine is
found naturally in food"...Oh Lord !
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- OK, Listen-Up. "Chlorine" found naturally
in food is GOOD FOR YOU!
- Natural ORGANIC Chlorine like that found in food is there
to fulfill several necessary functions. It will not harm you. It is; however,
nothing like the man-manipulated "Psyco-Killer-Pit-Bull" Chlorine
Free-Radical popped loose from Sucralose, reader, so forget that scrofulously
bogus argument!
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- Do a modicum of research and I think you will agree with
me!
- Besides, why take a chance with Sucralose, at all, when
there is Stevia & Xylitol available... of course they are both more
expensive. So? It remains reader; these are healthful! Besides, if everyone
bought Stevia and rejected Splenda the price would go way down in a hurry.
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- FYI "WARNING" - More Chlorine horrors. Please
stop using Chlorine Bleach for cleaning... the fumes are VERY toxic &
will eventually damage your lungs & more! Instead, use 35% Food-Grade
H2O2 (Hydrogen Peroxide) that must then be DILUTED. It will kill harmful
microbes about as ferociously as bleach but it is NOT toxic...however,
it is very dangerous (at full strength)! Because the recommended storage
place is in the refrigerator, your kid or drunk husband could swallow some
and at 35% potency? It would likely kill them within a few minutes. But
hey, chlorine bleach ain't that good for ya', either, by the by! Cold
slows the degradation of the H2O2, explaining its appearance in the fridge;
however, most come with a fairly good drunk-proof safety cap..
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- FYI on H2O2 (carefully diluted, reader, and taken internally):
it's so "smart" that it will kill harmful microbes, of course,
but it will not kill beneficial ones naturally found in your gut. This
carefully diluted H2O2 is Probiotic (for life)...so it will benefit your
good bugs... but is death onharmful living things... like the harmful anaerobic
bacteria in your gut that can't tolerate an explosion of oxygen from some
few drops of H2O2 in the appropriate amount of water. You CANNOT use regular
Hydrogen Peroxide folks - it must be "Food-Grade." Regardless,
for all the healthful benefits of this therapy, H2O2 -the reader is sternly
cautioned- is a caustic chemical not to be trifled with or regarded lightly!
Be warned!
- Know what you're doing!
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- Speaking of caustic chemicals, the most DANGEROUS TOXIC
chemical apparatus in your home is your dishwasher, believe it or not,
if you use typical dishwasher detergent. The steam that pours out after
you open the door sends toxic chlorine vapor all through the house.
- There are several Chlorine-free products on the web...
like "Seventh Generation" - (I don't own stock...)
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- Also if you could learn to appreciate just how toxic
chlorine is, you might even go "full-tilt-boogie" and convert
your swimming pool to an H2O2 system! You do absorb Chlorine right through
your skin so shower filters for Chlorine are becoming a hot item.
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- If you feel you must use bleach... please buy a mask
like a spray-painter uses BUT it has to have a filter much more restrictive
than an auto spray-painter... it must specifically say that it blocks chlorine.
I'm serious!
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- Heading into the barn, for all you Youngevity (tm) associates
upset with me right now... if you have a rational rebuttal, write... please!
I wouldbe improved! It remains, though, Doc seems a little dirty.
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- I have to make mention, if you would like to read about
a couple of other lies reference Doc Wallach products... lies much more
egregious than this "little Molasses fib," then read the following
paper: http://www.alienview.net/ALLT1.html#whey
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- Today? I only deconstructed his Sucralose fib because
of space and the subject of Splenda has a critical relevancy... but his
2 other lies (link above) are the real insults to credulity... In fact,
one is so fulsomely blatant that it ranks right up there with the guy urinating
on your leg while remarking on the steady rain. I digress...
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- If I'm wrong, please demonstrate it to me; again, I would
be better informed, remember. It remains, too, that I want to be a Wallach-phile...
really. His philosophy regarding supplements & nutrition seems not
only correct but, in fact, ahead of the pack, in the aggregate, but his
daunting infidelities make it difficult to love him. Ahh...you know,
who can love... ...a liar... of any stripe?
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- Consider too at last: "What would Jesus do?"
See, Doc Wallach is always interjecting God into his program... so if
I'm right about the subterfuge above -which I am- then doesn't that, sort
of, well... diminish all Christians... just a little bit?
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- Are you "distributors" -who consider yourselves
Christian- going to confront your boss and insist he clean up his act,
or, are you gonna cave and bow to Mammon, that god of greed?
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- C'mon! Insist on truth. Gratify some and astonish the
rest.
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- Questions?
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- Alan Graham
- alan068@centurytel.net
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- http://www.alienview.net/ALLTCON.html
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- That's enough. Well be.
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