Shane Ellison M. Sc.
NewsWithViews.com
Thursday, January 4, 2007
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.
Footnotes:
1, Joseph Mercola, Kendra Pearsall. Sweet Deception. Nelson Books.
ISBN: 0785221794. Copyright 2006.
2, 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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