Posted on 06/02/2023 6:40:06 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
A new study finds a chemical formed when we digest a widely used sweetener is "genotoxic," meaning it breaks up DNA. The chemical is also found in trace amounts in the sweetener itself, and the finding raises questions about how the sweetener may contribute to health problems.
At issue is sucralose, a widely used artificial sweetener sold under the trade name Splenda. Previous work by the same research team established that several fat-soluble compounds are produced in the gut after sucralose ingestion. One of these compounds is sucralose-6-acetate.
"To put this in context, the European Food Safety Authority has a threshold of toxicological concern for all genotoxic substances of 0.15 micrograms per person per day," Schiffman says. "Our work suggests that the trace amounts of sucralose-6-acetate in a single, daily sucralose-sweetened drink exceed that threshold. And that's not even accounting for the amount of sucralose-6-acetate produced as metabolites after people consume sucralose."
For the study, researchers conducted a series of in vitro experiments exposing human blood cells to sucralose-6-acetate and monitoring for markers of genotoxicity.
"In short, we found that sucralose-6-acetate is genotoxic, and that it effectively broke up DNA in cells that were exposed to the chemical," Schiffman says.
Schiffman says: "When we exposed sucralose and sucralose-6-acetate to gut epithelial tissues—the tissue that lines your gut wall—we found that both chemicals cause 'leaky gut.' Basically, they make the wall of the gut more permeable. The chemicals damage the 'tight junctions,' or interfaces, where cells in the gut wall connect to each other.
"We found that gut cells exposed to sucralose-6-acetate had increased activity in genes related to oxidative stress, inflammation and carcinogenicity," Schiffman says.
"If nothing else, I encourage people to avoid products containing sucralose. It's something you should not be eating."
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
I use honey if I use sweetener at all, which is not often.
It is my understanding that there are fiber syrups, such as agave and inulin, that will sweeten without raising blood sugar. Honey is certainly better than artificial sweeteners, but it will raise blood sugars.
I think it’s oligosaccharide syrup instead of plum syrup. Found in Korean food section of Asian stores.
Interesting...
Sucralose is a “flipped” sugar molecule.
It’s a conveniently timed study blaming an artificial sweetener for damaging DNA, to distract from the growing mountain of evidence that the Jim Jones Jab from Pfizer and ModeRNA alter DNA.
Diet drinks need to be used by the ‘best by’ date (or within a year of that date)- while sugar drinks like COKE can be stored for decades... Something creepy about artificial sweeteners...
All my life never used any artificial sweeteners and always used regular sugar (now use “sugar in the raw” while I never had a single “high blood sugar” result in any blood tests (never even close to “pre” diabetic).
About 90% of Type II diabetics are over weight and my uneducated guess and belief is the constant over weight condition preceeded and helped bring on the diabetes.
Why? Being over weight - diabetic or not - is most often associated with constant consumption of too many carbs. Over consumption of too many carbs results in a high rate of carbs being converted to some forms the body can store. Type II diabetes are often told by their doctors not too look so much at “sugar” content of an item, look at the total carbs for the item. Doctors know the results of too many carbs, and doctors treating diabetics know it is total carbs more than mere “sugar” (one of the carbs) any diabetic has to watch.
Lastly, any Type II diabetic I have ever know that vastly reduced or got rid of their diabetes did so with a weight reduction and life style weight control regimen that adreesed their total carbs not specifically the sugar.
Interesting. More reason to view this new paper on Sucralose with skepticism.
Who paid for the study?
Try sprinkling Ceylon cinnamon in your coffee. Great for controling your blood sugar and it adds a very light bit of sweetness. At least it does for me.
I don’t know in this case. But there are many examples of the sugar industry (sometimes secretly) funding studies to help their cause. Here are a few results from a Startpage search I just performed with the keywords: “american sugar council funds study”
Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research
Sep 12, 2016 ... That was an era when researchers were battling over which dietary culprit — sugar or fat — was contributing to the deaths of many Americans, ...
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat
50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame ...
Sep 13, 2016 ... In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the ... implicated sugar, and concluded that cutting fat out of American ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html
How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat - The New York Times
Sep 12, 2016 ... The studies used in the review were handpicked by the sugar group, ... though in recent years the American Heart Association, the World ...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5099084/
Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research - PMC - NCBI
The Sugar Association evolved from the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF), ... Research Council (NAS-NRC), US Public Health Service, the American Heart ...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/12/studies-health-nutrition-sugar-coca-cola-marion-nestle
Before you read another health study, check who’s funding the ...
Dec 12, 2016 ... Recently, evidence emerged that the sugar industry had paid scientists in the 1960s to implicate saturated fat, and not sugar, as a cause ...
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/nation-world/2016/09/12/study-details-sugar-industry-attempt-shape-science/15724028007/
Study details sugar industry attempt to shape science
The sugar industry began funding research that cast doubt on sugar’s role in ... The American Heart Association cites a study published in 2014 in saying ...
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/21/health/sugar-industry-cancer-history-study/index.html
Controversial sugar industry study on cancer uncovered - CNN
Nov 21, 2017 ... “There were plans to continue the study with funding from the British Nutrition Foundation, but, for reasons unbeknown to us, this did not occur ...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/sugar-industry-artificially-sweetened-harvard-research
How the sugar industry artificially sweetened Harvard research - PBS
Sep 13, 2016 ... That was an era when researchers were battling over which dietary culprit — sugar or fat — was contributing to the deaths of many Americans, ...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/sugar-industry-withheld-possible-evidence-of-cancer-link-50-years-ago-researchers-say
Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ...
Nov 22, 2017 ... In 1968, the Sugar Research Foundation launched a rodent study, ... that the sugar industry buried the evidence and stopped funding due to ...
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/sugar-industry-paid-medical-review-1960s-downplayed-link/story?id=42055301
Sugar Industry Paid for Medical Review in 1960s That Downplayed ...
Sep 13, 2016 ... A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal ... have been more transparent about its research funding in the 1960s, ...
Big Sugar has lost a lot of business to Splenda.
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And Imodium gained a lot of business from Splenda.
Bring back Cyclamates.🤨
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