While I was walking down my driveway for the Sunday paper today, I noticed it was wrapped in a yellow plastic Splenda sales bag. My first reaction was, will they ever stop! It’s hard to believe that Splenda is spending millions on ad campaigns for their poison sugar and the uninformed are eating dose after dose.

Sucralose is patented as a manmade “chlorinated sucrose sweetener” and it is registered as “chlorinated sucrose.” Chlorinated sucrose is not found anywhere in nature, like real sugar (sucrose) that is extracted from sugar cane and sugar beets. Chlorinated sucrose exists because of man.

The FDA states in their Final Report on Splenda that sucralose is “produced at an approximate purity of 98%.” The other two percent does not have to be reported to the FDA, nor listed as added ingredients. So what’s in the other two percent?

The chemicals used to synthesize sucralose in the five-step process:

1. Acetone 2. Acetic acid 3. Acetyl Alcohol 4. Acetic anhydride 5. Ammonium chloride 6. Benzene 7. Chlorinated sulfates 8. Ethyl alcohol 9. Isobutyl ketones 10. Formaldehyde 11. Hydrogen Chloride 12. Lithium chloride 13. Methanol 14. Sodium Methoxide 15. Sulfuryl chloride 16. Trityl chloride 17. Toluene 18. Thionyl chloride

The FDA does not presently require an Environmental Impact Statement for sucralose, so it’s open season for the rules, at present. The “technology of foods” (artificial sweeteners and manmade foods) has gone too far, and will not secure eternal health, beauty, slimness, or youth. Laboratory chemicals are not the answer.

Adapted from: The Hidden Chemicals in Splenda by Dr. Janet Starr Hull

http://www.splendaexposed.com/articles/2005/11/the_hidden_chem.html

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