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The fake sweetener collecting in your body fat
Remember when all the sugar-free products started switching to a sweeter called sucralose — also known as Splenda?
Well, that big shift happened thanks to all of the publicity about how bad all the other artificial sweeteners really were for your health.
You see, there was a big backlash when everyone found out that saccharin (aka Sweet-n- Low) causes cancer. If you somehow hadn’t heard, it’s been linked to multiple types of cancer from bladder, uterus, and ovary to skin cancers.
And, that was followed by the news that aspartame (think Equal or NutraSweet) is linked to heart attacks and heart-related deaths and is a neurotoxin that breaks down into formaldehyde (yes, what they use for embalming) in your body.
So, everyone, even the FDA, decided to push sucralose as the safer alternative.
Well, now, it looks like nothing could be further from the truth…
Sucralose is a loser too
It’s been gradual, but the problems with sucralose have been piling up…
Scientists have found that sucralose:
- Decreases the number of beneficial bacteria in your gut, a problem that can lead to everything from heart disease to depression.
- Is reported to alter glucose and insulin levels in the blood.
- If cooked, may produce toxic compounds called chloropropanols.
Is any of this really surprising considering it was created in a lab at King’s College in London and made specifically to help kill bugs? There, scientists found that by bleaching sugar molecules they could enhance the pesticide effect of chlorine.
That might explain why it’s been linked to leukemia and has been found to be toxic to the liver and kidneys and shrinks thymus glands in rats.
Yet, the company that makes Splenda along with all of the others that use it in their food and drinks continue to say it’s completely safe.
But how would you feel about a food additive with such a checkered past living in your body long after you ingested it — doing who knows what?
Because that’s what the most recent study looking into the health effects of this questionable sweetener has discovered…
The fake sweetener that sticks around
When Splenda first hit the market, one thing that the food police liked about it was that it was considered biologically inert.
That meant you could suck down a tasty sweet soda and this great new artificial sweetener would just pass right out of your body.
But a brand, new study just published by researchers from North Carolina State University has found that some sucralose is actually metabolized in your gut… and it breaks down into at least two fat-soluble compounds.
In other words, it can cross over, be absorbed into and be stored in your body fat.
Just think about it, a substance that can kill off the good bacteria in your gut, cause leukemia and is toxic enough to damage your organs — is actually sitting around in your body fat long after you consume it.
In fact, according to the scientists, those compounds are still detectable in your urine 11 days after the last time you have it.
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Sources:
- Gut microbes may affect heart disease risk – new research — The Conversation
- Poor Gut Health May Trigger Risk of Depression In Obesity: Study — ndtv.com
- Sucralose produces previously unidentified metabolites — North Carolina State University
- Artificial sweeteners not for health — Easy Health Options
- Cancer danger turns this sweetener sour — Easy Health Options
- Sucralose produces previously unidentified metabolites — North Carolina State University
- Splenda: Is It Safe? — MedicalNewsToday.com