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    New Study Of Splenda And Sucralose Pose Potential Harm

    Chairman of Citizens for Health Declares FDA Should Review Approval of Splenda


    New Study of Splenda and Sucralose Reveals Shocking New Information About Potential Harmful Effect on Humans



    MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 22, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- James Turner, chairman of the national consumer education group Citizens for Health expressed shock and outrage after reading a new report from scientists at Duke University. "The report makes it clear that the artificial sweetener Splenda and its key component sucralose pose a threat to the people who consume the product. Hundreds of consumers have complained to us about side effects from using Splenda and this study, published this past week in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part A, confirms that the chemicals in the little yellow package should carry a big red warning label," said Turner.

    Among the results in the study by Drs. Mohamed B. Abou-Donia, Eman M. El-Masry, Ali A. Abdel-Rahman, Roger E. McLendon and Susan S. Schiffman is evidence that, in the animals studied, Splenda reduces the amount of good bacteria in the intestines by 50%, increases the pH level in the intestines, contributes to increases in body weight and affects the P-glycoprotein (P-gp) in the body in such a way that crucial health-related drugs could be rejected. Turner noted that the P-gp effect "could result in crucial medications used in chemotherapy for cancer patients, AIDS treatment and drugs for heart conditions being shunted back into the intestines rather than being absorbed by the body as intended."

    The study was conducted using male rats over a period of twelve weeks. The manufacturers of Splenda also used a rat study when they applied for and received approval to market the product from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. At the time, the findings from their rat studies were extrapolated as to possible effects on humans. This is standard FDA practice and this study is consistent with that practice.

    Turner said, "This report followed accepted policies and procedures and the results make clear the potential for disturbing side effects from the ingestion of Splenda. It is like putting a pesticide in your body. And this is at levels of intake erroneously approved by the Food and Drug Administration. A person eating two slices of cake and drinking two cups of coffee containing Splenda would ingest enough sucralose to affect the P-glycoprotein, while consuming just seven little Splenda packages reduces good bacteria." Although the effect of consuming Splenda does not result from a one time use, the side effects do occur after accumulated use. Turner also noted unmistakable evidence that Splenda is absorbed by fat, contrary to the claims of Johnson & Johnson.

    Turner announced, "We are calling today on the FDA to immediately accept our petition filed over a year ago and initiate a review of its approval of sucralose and to require a warning label on Splenda packaging cautioning that people who take medications and/or have gastrointestinal problems avoid using Splenda. The new study makes it clear that Splenda can cause you to gain weight and lose the benefits of medications designed to improve and protect your health. The FDA should not continue to turn a blind eye to this health threat."

    Citizens for Health will testify in Sacramento, CA, on October 3, 2008, before the California Assembly Committee on Health which is examining the use of deceptive advertising to promote sales of potentially unhealthy food additives, particularly artificial sweeteners.

    About Citizens for Health

    Citizens for Health (www.citizens.org) is an international non-profit consumer advocacy group working to broaden healthcare options, create an integrative health system based on wellness, and advance the freedom to make health choices. The group promotes the fundamental policies needed to improve health choices and information in the U.S. and internationally. The group works with grassroots and education organizations and partners to ensure consumer access to dietary supplements, safe foods, a healthy environment and a wide range of healing therapies. Citizens for Health fosters active citizen leadership and organizes natural health consumers to create political and legislative solutions that support those rights.

    CONTACT: Citizens for Health
    Jim Turner
    202-255-8040
    jim@swankin-turner.com






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    New Study of Splenda and Sucralose Reveals Shocking New Information About Potential Harmful Effect on Humans



    What happened to the OLD study which revealed the same thing?

    I, for one, am not shocked.....I paid attention the first time
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    Part of the population reduction agenda.

    GMO foods replace nutrition, poisons in food from China. Fluoride poison in the water in most Countries of the World.

    Control the food, control the people. Is it by accident that UN food program was corrupt, my guess is no.
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    The marxist are trying to KILL us and enslave us in global government. When will we ever say NO? I guest not that we have Barack Obama in the white house.
    <div>DEFEAT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA THE COMMIE FOR FREEDOM!!!!</div>

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    Politics aside, when my husband and I decided to quit drinking diet sodas, we both lost about 20 pounds without changing anything else. Our energy levels increased and as a whole we felt healthier. We substituted our diet soft drink consumption with something healthier, regular sodas lol.
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    When I was pregnant with my first son my Doctor advised me not to touch anything with artificial sugars because of potential harm to the baby. I thought if they are harmful during pregnancy, they are dangerous at any time. I have avoided them since and I read labels carefully. Our bodies were not made to process artificial additives.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dianer
    When I was pregnant with my first son my Doctor advised me not to touch anything with artificial sugars because of potential harm to the baby. I thought if they are harmful during pregnancy, they are dangerous at any time. I have avoided them since and I read labels carefully. Our bodies were not made to process artificial additives.
    Remember when butter was bad and margarine good, turns out the opposite is true.

    I am not sure of the accuracy of this, but a few years ago I got an email telling me margarine was 1 molecule away from plastic. I have not touched the stuff since. Now that I am a stay at home mom, as much as I am able, I make foods from scratch. I am hoping to find somewhere where I can learn to can veggies before my fall garden harvest.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cayla99
    Quote Originally Posted by Dianer
    When I was pregnant with my first son my Doctor advised me not to touch anything with artificial sugars because of potential harm to the baby. I thought if they are harmful during pregnancy, they are dangerous at any time. I have avoided them since and I read labels carefully. Our bodies were not made to process artificial additives.
    Remember when butter was bad and margarine good, turns out the opposite is true.
    Quote Originally Posted by cayla99


    I am not sure of the accuracy of this, but a few years ago I got an email telling me margarine was 1 molecule away from plastic. I have not touched the stuff since. Now that I am a stay at home mom, as much as I am able, I make foods from scratch. I am hoping to find somewhere where I can learn to can veggies before my fall garden harvest.





    Ick!! One molecule away from plastic? I had not heard that one Cayla but it wouldn't surprise me.

    Most......if not all..... things can be changed into something else, completely unrelated in nature to the original item, by a simple change to the molecular structure.

    And the process of hydrogenation does exactly that.....it changes molecular structure.

    To be on the safe side.....stay away from anything that has been hydrogenated
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    Quote Originally Posted by cayla99
    Quote Originally Posted by Dianer
    When I was pregnant with my first son my Doctor advised me not to touch anything with artificial sugars because of potential harm to the baby. I thought if they are harmful during pregnancy, they are dangerous at any time. I have avoided them since and I read labels carefully. Our bodies were not made to process artificial additives.
    Remember when butter was bad and margarine good, turns out the opposite is true.

    I am not sure of the accuracy of this, but a few years ago I got an email telling me margarine was 1 molecule away from plastic. I have not touched the stuff since. Now that I am a stay at home mom, as much as I am able, I make foods from scratch. I am hoping to find somewhere where I can learn to can veggies before my fall garden harvest.

    This is a good site.

    http://farmgal.tripod.com/

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    Quote Originally Posted by April
    Quote Originally Posted by cayla99
    Quote Originally Posted by Dianer
    When I was pregnant with my first son my Doctor advised me not to touch anything with artificial sugars because of potential harm to the baby. I thought if they are harmful during pregnancy, they are dangerous at any time. I have avoided them since and I read labels carefully. Our bodies were not made to process artificial additives.
    Remember when butter was bad and margarine good, turns out the opposite is true.

    I am not sure of the accuracy of this, but a few years ago I got an email telling me margarine was 1 molecule away from plastic. I have not touched the stuff since. Now that I am a stay at home mom, as much as I am able, I make foods from scratch. I am hoping to find somewhere where I can learn to can veggies before my fall garden harvest.

    This is a good site.

    http://farmgal.tripod.com/
    Wonderful site, thank you. Has anybody ever made lye soap? lolol
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