Whenever the subject of sugars and artificial sweeteners comes up, inevitabley someone brings the discussion around to Splenda.
People tend to think that because the FDA approved it that it’s fine to ingest.
However, in her new book, Splenda® Is It Safe or Not? toxicologist/artificial sweetener expert Janet Hull, Ph.D. reveals that scientific evidence strongly suggest that the chemical sweetener may be harmful.
Dr. Hull explains that Splenda® research documents that the artificial sweetener has negative effects on the livers, spleens and kidneys of laboratory animals and numbness of the hind legs of male rats.
Additional research, she found, cites recurring laboratory results of infertility in male rats and gastrointestinal problems in pregnant rats fed Splenda.
“Consumers are not being told the whole truth about the long-term dangers of using artificial chemical sweeteners," Dr. Hull insists.
"No one has considered the fact that chemical sweeteners may be at the root of many unexplained disease symptoms that puzzle your doctor.”
In fact, Dr. Hull notes, “giving sugar-free chemicals to your children or using them during pregnancy may be harmful to a child’s emotional and physical maturation and to the normal development of a fetus.”
Dr. Janet Hull is author of Sweet Poison: How The World’s Most Popular Artificial Sweetener Is Killing Us – My Story, which chronicles her gripping battle with a near-fatal disease that she believes is caused by aspartame found in NutraSweet/Equal®. She is also an OSHA certified engineer, and she has degrees in nutrition, environmental toxicology and geology.
You can buy Splenda® Is It Safe Or Not? here.
One thought on “New Book Suggests Splenda Can Be Harmful”
I am allergic to both Aspartame (sp?) and Saccharin, so was quite ecstatic that I was able to consume splenda without an allergic reaction. So, I consumed volumes of it over my 67 pound loss doing the Atkins plan. Since then, I have personally stopped using Splenda.
I have read numerous articles and postings (mostly on http://www.mercola.com, http://www.mercola.com/2005/may/11/splenda_competition.htm and also on http://www.foodanddiet.com/NewFiles/splenda.html) about the potential dangers of splenda, and have decided to stop it’s use. I now rely on raw sugar (in limited quantities) or honey (also in limited quantities). I know, these are big ‘no no’s’ on low-carb plans (I have since stopped doing Atkins due to many complex reasons and now try to follow the Dr Phil plan). The point of this posting is to give a personal “I agree” with the fact that there are potential dangers (many we’re not aware of yet) with using artificial sweeteners – splenda being the most popular at this time – and we need to be aware of those dangers in order to make more informed decisions as to whether we’ll use that product or not.
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