Splenda not so splendid

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The 'Other' Sweetener That's Made from Sugar, but is Closer to DDT

Posted By Dr. Mercola | April 26 2011

Splenda Artificial SweetenerResearchers recently investigated sucralose (Splenda) to see if it could reduce hunger and keep blood sugar steady. They found that it could not.

The researchers hoped to find that sucralose could cause the intestine to produce a hormone that reduces blood sugar and decreases appetite, which prior study had indicated might be a possibility. But the effect did not occur when it was ingested orally -- hunger remained the same and the blood sugar remained the same.

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[ayin jade]

Take this with a heavy dose of salt. That site is not a good site. Mercola has made many claims over the years that are patently false in order to promote its products. A snake oil salesman type site.

[Guest LadyC]

i've used splenda for years. it never occurred to me that splenda might reduce hunger LOL. that just seems kinda silly! it wasn't ever one of splenda's claims, that i know of. it's simply a zero calorie sweetener. i'm sure eventually they will find plenty of long term side effects to it, but thus far, it's got less known risks than the others. stevia is supposed to be a better alternative though, but it's out of my price range.

i hardly think it makes people have a notion that since there's no calories in it that they can pack in the calories elsewhere. people's eating habits are not formed that way. if people are watching their weight and counting their calories, they're going to be counting their consumption of calories, not the ones they are missing.

[mizzdy]

I was so happy when Splenda came out and used it for years until I discovered that it contributed to my neurological problems, it increased my dizziness dramatically and the nerve problems in my left leg were so much worse. Splenda is a far sight better than nutrasweet yet even splenda is not the best thing for ones body. Splendas been linked with lupus, ms, diabetes, weight gain, well many kinds of diseases. I finally got my sister and her husband off of aspartame and they went to splenda within about a three month period both had gained weight my sisters blood sugar went so haywire that they had to put her back on her meds after being off of them for a year. And my bro in laws kidney dr told him never to use artifical sweetners again. We chemicalize everything we eat and drink these days and splenda like many use chlorine to make their product. But whats a person to do these days? seems whatever we eat or ingest is poisonous to us in some ways!

shalom,

Mizz

[Isaiah 6:8]

After hearing all this why is good ol natural sugar bad????

[Guest LadyC]

honestly i don't think natural sugar is all THAT bad anyway... other than just being a lot of empty calories that burn off fast. i think the bigger problem is that processed foods all use high fructose corn syrup.

me, i avoid sugar because of the empty calories.

[oldzimm]

If anything is not natural, I don't want it, I believe it is safer that way.

[Song In The Night]

I was so happy when Splenda came out and used it for years until I discovered that it contributed to my neurological problems, it increased my dizziness dramatically and the nerve problems in my left leg were so much worse. Splenda is a far sight better than nutrasweet yet even splenda is not the best thing for ones body. Splendas been linked with lupus, ms, diabetes, weight gain, well many kinds of diseases. I finally got my sister and her husband off of aspartame and they went to splenda within about a three month period both had gained weight my sisters blood sugar went so haywire that they had to put her back on her meds after being off of them for a year. And my bro in laws kidney dr told him never to use artifical sweetners again. We chemicalize everything we eat and drink these days and splenda like many use chlorine to make their product. But whats a person to do these days? seems whatever we eat or ingest is poisonous to us in some ways!

shalom,

Mizz

I have been using splenda these past few months, and even though my caloric intake is more or less the same, I have gained 10 pounds !! CoInkyDinky ??

After hearing all this why is good ol natural sugar bad????

I was listening to Christian radio a while back, and a Christian dietician was saying that one of the biggest ways to reduce sugar from your child's diet is to, get this, "put the sugar bowl back on the table."

"How does this work ?" I said to myself, only to be interupted by the interviewer asking, "How does this work ?"

Well, the dietician went on to say that the breakfast cereals that are aimed at kids have such a high amount of sugar that, if you were to give them plain cornflakes, and a bowl of sugar, that chances are, they would spoon into their cornflakes far less the amount of sugar that are in all those processed puffs, balls, and charms.

Eye opeining.

Now I wanna start a sugar cane plantation and sing "Day Oh !!! Day Ay Ay Oh !!!"

Day light come and me want no more splenda....

[mizzdy]

After hearing all this why is good ol natural sugar bad????

White sugar is not good for you either its processed and bleached in most cases, natural raw sugar or the equivalent is the best and thats what we have been using for many years now.