Source:
http://www.integratedsupplements.com/articles/Newsletter200706.pdf
http://www.integratedsupplements.com/articles/Newsletter200707.pdf

Let’s keep in mind splenda is still pretty new, and there haven’t been many studies on it. The longest study was probably 3 months long, and it has never been studied on pregnant women or children.

None of us (including doctors) know about it enough to have definitive opinion about it. No one can say that it is perfectly safe, just as well that we can’t say it is completely unsafe. It’s still a mystery.

It is simply too soon to rationalize that just because adverse reactions have not been reported, as this doctor suggests, that it must be safe. However, all of us who have read this can say we have heard of adverse reactions from splenda, and that is enough for me. ( Actually, I have heard that t has been linked to gastrointestinal problems) Why take the chance?

As for me I will stay away from it. I use Sweetleaf Sweetener stevia. I’ve used liquid and powder, and neither form has an aftertaste!

THE LETHAL SCIENCE OF SPLENDA,
A POISONOUS CHLOROCARBON

By James Bowen, M.D.
Posted: 08 May 2005

James Bowen, M.D., A physician, biochemist, and survivor of aspartame poisoning warns about yet another synthetic sweetener, Splenda.

Hawaii, May 8, 2005 — The chemical sucralose, marketed as “Splenda”, has replaced aspartame as the #1 artificial sweetener in foods and beverages. Aspartame has been forced out by increasing public awareness that it is both a neurotoxin and an underlying cause of chronic illness worldwide. Dr. James Bowen, Researcher and biochemist, reports:

“Splenda/sucralose is simply chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Common chlorocarbons include carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethelene and methylene chloride, all deadly. Chlorine is nature’s Doberman attack dog, a highly excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach, disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid.

“Sucralose is a molecule of sugar chemically manipulated to surrender three hydroxyl groups (hydrogen + oxygen) and replace them with three chlorine atoms. Natural sugar is a hydrocarbon built around 12 carbon atoms. When turned into Splenda it becomes a chlorocarbon, in the family of Chlorodane, Lindane and DDT.

“It is logical to ask why table salt, which also contains chlorine, is safe while Splenda/sucralose is toxic? Because salt isn’t a chlorocarbon. When molecular chemistry binds sodium to chlorine to make salt carbon isn’t included. Sucralose and salt are as different as oil and water.

“Unlike sodium chloride, chlorocarbons are never nutritionally compatible with our metabolic processes and are wholly incompatible with normal human metabolic functioning. When chlorine is chemically reacted into carbon-structured organic compounds to make chlorocarbons, the carbon and chlorine atoms bind to each other by mutually sharing electrons in their outer shells. This arrangement adversely affects human metabolism because our mitochondrial and cellular enzyme systems are designed to completely utilize organic molecules containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and other compatible nutritional elements.

“By this process chlorocarbons such as sucralose deliver chlorine directly into our cells through normal metabolization. This makes them effective insecticides and preservatives. Preservatives must kill anything alive to prevent bacterial decomposition.”

Dr. Bowen believes ingested chlorocarbon damage continues with the formation of other toxins: “Any chlorocarbons not directly excreted from the body intact can cause immense damage to the processes of human metabolism and, eventually, our internal organs. The liver is a detoxification organ which deals with ingested poisons. Chlorocarbons damage the hepatocytes, the liver’s metabolic cells, and destroy them.

In test animals Splenda produced swollen livers, as do all chlorocarbon poisons, and also calcified the kidneys of test animals in toxicity studies. The brain and nervous system are highly subject to metabolic toxicities and solvency damages by these chemicals. Their high solvency attacks the human nervous system and many other body systems including genetics and the immune function. Thus, chlorocarbon poisoning can cause cancer, birth defects, and immune system destruction. These are well known effects of Dioxin and PCBs which are known deadly chlorocarbons.”

Dr. Bowen continues: “Just like aspartame, which achieved marketplace approval by the Food and Drug Administration when animal studies clearly demonstrated its toxicity, sucralose also failed in clinical trials with animals. Aspartame created brain tumors in rats. Sucralose has been found to shrink thymus glands (the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver inflammation in rats and mice.

“In the coming months we can expect to see a river of media hype expounding the virtues of Splenda/sucralose. We should not be fooled again into accepting the safety of a toxic chemical on the blessing of the FDA and saturation advertising. In terms of potential long-term human toxicity we should regard sucralose with its chemical cousin DDT, the insecticide now outlawed because of its horrendous long term toxicities at even minute trace levels in human, avian, and mammalian tissues.

“Synthetic chemical sweeteners are generally unsafe for human consumption. This toxin was given the chemical name “sucralose” which is a play on the technical name of natural sugar, sucrose. One is not the other. One is food, the other is toxic; don’t be deceived.”

Dr. Bowen also calls attention to another seldom recognized and deadly permanent effect of these chemicals: “Aspartame, sold as NutraSweet, Equal, E951, Canderel, Benevia and under other names, is a hypersensitization agent which causes Polychemical Sensitivity syndrome. Chlorocarbons strongly induce uncurable hypersensitivity diseases which are now becoming rampant.” (James Bowen, M.D.)

Doctor Bowen has spent 20 years researching artificial sweeteners after his use of aspartame resulted in being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease. Dr Bowen’s intention is to warn the world of the toxicity of tabletop poisons like aspartame, Splenda and Neotame.

This article available at: http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm

“Whew! Generally I like Dr Eades, but this is annoying.

> it is really a sugar molecule, so it really isn’t an artificial sweetener as
is, for example, saccharine

As soon as you replace the hydroxyls with the chlorine, it ceases to be a sugar
molecule. It becomes something else, something that has never been made before
in nature, so it is therefore artificial.

>The bulk of the ice cream is made with cream, milk, and sugar, so does
the little bit of artificial vanilla extract make the whole shebang
artificial

This analogy is flawed, because the chlorine is not just mixed in alongside
sugar, but has altered the structure of the sugar itself, making it no longer
sugar. The artificial vanilla does not alter the cream, milk, or sugar it is
blended with.

>Common table salt is sodium chloride, half sodium and half chlorine
(since the chlorine is in its ionic form it’s called chloride).
Chloride is a natural substance. In fact chlorine is one of the
elements in the periodic table. No one would consider salt artificial,
so how can chloride – a natural element – be artificial?

Two points here. One – all elements are natural. Uranium is natural. Cadmium
is natural. Arsenic is natural. Everything coming out of every pesticide
laboratory; everything in existence in the universe in fact – is formed from
elements, all of which are found on the periodic table! – so therefore natural.
By that argument. Plastic is natural. Cars are natural. GMO seeds are natural.
By that argument. I don’t think this is what *we* mean when we say “natural.”
Two – chlorine and chloride are indeed two forms of the same element, but they
have vastly different chemical properties, and to claim that because our bodies
need and use chloride that therefore there is no danger from chlorine in other
forms is simplistic and specious. Chlorine gas is formed from two chlorine
atoms covalently bound – natural chlorine! found on the periodic table! but it
will kill you very fast. Many on this list work very hard to remove chlorine
from their water. Not chloride, which is innocuous. Chloride is easy to excrete
via the kidneys. Chlorine is *never* found with a covalent bond in living
systems. Our livers get very stressed trying and trying to detox these compounds
to no avail. To cite chloride levels in cellular fluid and blood, and then
compare that to chlorine values in Splenda is apples and oranges and
meaningless. He even says “the tiny amount of chloride in the Splenda” – and
there is no chloride in Splenda!
It’s chlorine, a whole different critter. I hate to think he’s purposefully
muddying the waters, but as a Dr he should know better and know to be careful in
his terminology.
grrrrr!”

Thanks!

Laurel

So, I don’t use it anymore.

I can’t use aspartame. It tears my stomach up (cramps/diarrhea) . I found out it was in REGULAR gum along with the sugar that way. I chewed a couple of pieces of my DH’s gum and had symptoms. Since we aren’t into wood alcohol or formaldehyde, he doesn’t chew gum anymore either. It hasn’t been in hubba bubba yet.

Xylitol similar sweeteners are acknowledged to cause bloating/gas or bowel cramps in many people: Note the “may have a laxative effect if taken in quantity” label on some of these products. We should check that the Splenda products we think are causing abdominal pain are not sweetener cocktails.

Within the past two weeks, things got much, much worse, and I was getting extremely depressed – having thoughts that no one liked me, that I was alone, that I wanted to run off, leaving my DH and 3 kids behind (not suicide, just run off and be alone).

I was just about to call my doctor when I remembered seeing info online a couple of years ago linking Splenda to depression in some people. I decided to cut out Splenda and see if it helped.

Now it is a mere 2 days later, and I feel like I am back to normal! I’m no longer irritable, anxious, depressed, or feeling like I’m spinning out of control. I will NEVER eat Splenda again, and am going to try to stay away from all artificial sweeteners because I fear having this happen again.

It is frightening to think that I could have kept on eating this and taking antidepressants to try to counteract the side effects. I’m glad I figured it out before I went that route!

Hi Vicki–

MRE

I have. It works great.