The ugly truth

Perhaps some of you soda drinkers will give up  diet soda after reading this! 

Sucralose is turning up EVERYWHERE in many of consumers food/drink products. 


The most misunderstood fact about sucralose is that it is nothing like sugar even though the marketing implies that it is. Sucralose was actually discovered while trying to create a new insecticide. It may have started out as sugar, but the final product is anything but sugar. According to the book Sweet Deception, sucralose is made when sugar is treated with trityl chloride, acetic anhydride, hydrogen chlorine, thionyl chloride, and methanol in the presence of dimethylformamide, 4-methylmorpholine, toluene, methyl isobutyl ketone, acetic acid, benzyltriethlyammonium chloride, and sodium methoxide, making it unlike anything found in nature. If you read the fine print on the Splenda web site, it states that "although sucralose has a structure like sugar and a sugar-like taste, it is not natural."

"The presence of chlorine is thought to be the most dangerous component of sucralose. Chlorine is considered a carcinogen and has been used in poisonous gas, disinfectants, pesticides, and plastics. The digestion and absorption of sucralose is not clear due to a lack of long-term studies on humans. The majority of studies were done on animals for short lengths of time. The alleged symptoms associated with sucralose are gastrointestinal problems (bloating, gas, diarrhea, nausea), skin irritations (rash, hives, redness, itching, swelling), wheezing, cough, runny nose, chest pains,palpitations, anxiety, anger, moods swings, depression, and itchy eyes. The only way to be sure of the safety of sucralose is to have long-term studies on humans done.

Splenda is a product that contains the artificial sweetener sucralose, but that is not all that it contains. Sucralose does have calories, but because it is 600 times sweeter than sugar, very small amounts are needed to achieve the desired sweetness so you most likely won't consume enough to get any calories. The other two ingredients in Splenda are dextrose and maltodextrin, which are used to increase bulk and are carbohydrates that do have calories. One cup of Splenda contains 96 calories and 32 grams of carbohydrates, which is often unnoticed due to the label claiming that it's a no calorie sweetener. Because this is found in so many products and can be used in cooking, it can be possible to consume 1 cup or more each day. For people with diabetes, this is a significant amount of carbohydrates, and for people who are watching their weight, this can be a problem. Consuming an additional 100 calories a day can result in a weight gain of 10 lbs. per year!"

Aspartame you can read about HERE

Some of you might be like "okay C Mae I get it--- lay off the sweeteners!" or Some might be saying, "why do you care so much?" 

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I just think there are a lot of naive women/men youth of people out there and they just don't know, or live in the bubble of "nothing bad will happen to me" mode. 

If you are one of these people, I can honestly say I cannot feel bad for you if one day down the road you get cancer from this crap. The point is, the TOOLS and information on what causes cancer are out there & are AVAILABLE (and all over the net) so if you chose to ignore them, then it's your own fault! Then you have no one to blame but yourself. Take the proper precautions now, and odds are you'll live a long happy cancer free life! I realize there are tons of things out there that cause cancer that we aren't aware of that we can breathe in, but being a smart person is doing our part on the things we do know are bad for you.

Your choice. Take it or leave it.