Re: Splenda is not Splendid

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In a message dated 5/24/2004 10:10:10 PM Pacific Standard Time,

wambo1941@... writes:

> Splenda is not Splendid

>

> Compiled by Ingri Cassel

> Since we have been sharing about the dangers of diet products

> containing aspartame and encouraging people to read The Artificially

> Sweetened Times [vaclib.org/news/astimes], many have asked us about

> Splenda, thinking that sucralose doesn't have the same problems as

> aspartame, saccharine and refined white sugar. The following articles

> address the problems with Splenda according to a biochemist, a

> researcher and one man's personal experiences with the chemically

> altered sweetener. Splenda, the brand name for sucralose, is produced

> by chlorinating sugar (sucrose). This involves chemically changing

> the structure of the sugar molecules by substituting three chlorine

> atoms for three hydroxyl group atoms.

>

This article was posted quite a while ago. I sent it to Jo Lund of

Healthy Exchanges and she assured me it is all bunk. The other message you sent

earlier re sweet and low and all of those sweeteners was debunked on snopes and

were not true. Hugs, marilyn, who really tries to stay on top of these things

before they pull me under! LOL Marilyn