Dangers of Splenda: Can Splenda Kill?
Its official: Splenda has replaced aspartame as the most used artificial sweetener in foods and beverages. More and more artificial sweeteners are being used today as consumers want products that taste good but don’t pack the calories that are associated with sugar. Aspartame, which used to be used in most artificially sweetened items, was basically forced out of popularity and products because the public became aware of the fact that it can be the cause of many chronic illnesses. James Bowen, a physician, biochemist and survivor of aspartame poisoning is doing his best to warn about Splenda and its implications on those who consume it.
One Doctor’s Take: Splenda Is Bad for Us from the Inside Out
Dr. Bowen says of Splenda, “Splenda/sucralose is simply chlorinated sugar; a chlorocarbon. Common chlorocarbons include carbon tetrachloride, trichlorethelene and methylene chloride, all deadly. Chlorine is nature’s Doberman attack dog, a highly excitable, ferocious atomic element employed as a biocide in bleach, disinfectants, insecticide, WWI poison gas and hydrochloric acid.” This seems a bit extreme, but when you step back and think about it, you do have to wonder what this product does when we ingest it continually. In fact, many of us are ingesting several items every day that have Splenda in it.
Dr. Bowen has made a lot of people scratch their head and think about exactly why they are ingesting Splenda and exactly what it is doing to our bodies. The doctor points out that chlorocarbons, which is what Splenda is, is not nutritionally compatible with the metabolic processes that are ongoing in our bodies. Using very scientific means of researching, the doctor has come to find and believes wholeheartedly that the arrangements of the atoms in Splenda adversely affects human metabolism.
Dr. James Bowen believes that the chlorocarbons cannot be excreted from our bodies and that will continue to cause damage to our metabolism and eventually if we keep ingesting it, to our internal organs. Bowen believes that the liver is not able to detoxify our body of Splenda because the chlorocarbons in Splenda damage the hepatocytes, which are the liver’s metabolic cells.
Dr. Bowen hasn’t come with up with these beliefs without data to back it up. In fact, there have been test animals that have ingested Splenda and all of them had swollen livers and calcified kidneys. As if these findings weren’t overwhelming enough, it is known that the brain and nervous system are susceptible to metabolic toxicities and can be damaged by the chemicals that are Splenda. It is thought that something as seemingly simple and harmless and Splenda could cause a breakdown in the nervous system, affecting genetics and even immune function. It is also thought that because of the breakdown that chlorocarbon poisoning can cause cancer, birth defects, and total immune system destruction.
Dr. James Bowen says, “We should not be fooled again into accepting the safety of a toxic chemical on the blessing of the FDA and saturation advertising. In terms of potential long term human toxicity we should regard sucralose with its chemical cousin DDT, the insecticide now outlawed because of its horrendous long term toxicities at even minute trace levels in human, avian, and mammalian tissues.”
In short, Splenda is something that we all need to think about before we ingest it. It’s regarded as an artificial sweetener. In most instances, artificial is not a term that has a positive connotation. Why should it be any different with the things that we ingest? We don’t want to think that there are things out there that are FDA approved that aren’t safe, but when you think about aspartame you have to know that there are things out there that just aren’t good for us. We have to be discerning consumers and think about our health long term.
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I have been using Splenda for two years and did not put 2 and 2 together to realize all the health problems i have been having is caused by Splenda. I have been in severe stomache pain, mega bowel problems, no energy, blood vessels around nose rosey red. I have gone to my doctor and had tests but they could not find anything. On my own i began eliminating different foods and it wasnt until i stopped using Diet Rite ZERO products and Splenda in baking that i saw any improvement. My stomach pains was so severe they would wake me at night and i could not help but groan in pain. One day while driving i was in so much pain i had to pull off on the side of the road and get out of my car. I found myself in the road and did not even realize it. I didnt know or care that i was in the road, i was only trying to get some relief by moving. Splenda is POISON. No human should ever take this product.
I am really worried after reading all this about Splenda. About 5 or 6 years ago I started using Splenda in my coffee because I used way too much sugar and thought that I would lose weight using Splenda. I started using 4 packets of Splenda to each cup of coffee I would drink. I normally drank 1 cup of coffee a day. But, since 2007, I have been drinking 2 to 3 cups a day. I am EXTREMELY worried about my health now! I do have some stomache pain and definitely bloating. I have headaches behind the eyes. I feel like my eyesight is rapidly decreasing. I also just feel like I am slowly changing mentally. I just thought this was all coming from old age. But, I am only 40! Is there any way I can know for sure if the Splenda has caused this damage? AND, will my condition improve if I stop or is the damage done?
After 6 mos. of being sick, feeling terrible, and even having to go to ER with chest pains, I’m am already feeling 100% better just two days after quitting all use of Splenda and products which contain it.Headaches, gas, bowel pain, back pain, dimming vision, muscle pain, bloating, liver pain,dizziness, foggy thinking/forgetfulness, anxiety/depression/irritability weigh gain all led me to believe I was on the slippery slope to death. Then an attack of hives and angioedema xs 10 days caused me to eliminate meds and foods systematically for days. Nothing stopped the worsenening allergic rx until I stopped the 2 Splenda in my one cup of morning coffee. Like magic, within hours I began to feel as if a poison was being removed from my diet. Today only 24 hours+ afterward, I walked 3 miles easily and felt wonderful again with only some aches left. I will touch no product which include this toxic poison and am warning everyone about it.
It is sad and shocking to realize that for the love of money our government and those who represent the American people would allow corporations to poison us to death. It is becoming all to clear to me that the FDA is a toothless whore. I do not feel that the evils of governments will change until the world is destroyed and we have a new earth. Human nature is constantly destructive BECAUSE we have all been subjected to mortality and by nature we are children of wrath.
I tried decided to try Splenda because diabetes runs in my family. Perhaps a ’sugar free’ alternative would be a good idea. I quickly found out after using it twice that I have a potentially fatal allergy to sucralose. My extended family joked about it until someone ‘forgot’ to tell me that a Splenda-brown sugar blend was used to sweeten baked beans at a barbecue. Within minutes it looked like I had been punched in the eyes due to swelling. Now no one in my family uses sucralose. My previous allergic symptoms were: red dots everywhere that looked like goosebumps, hives, severe intestinal cramps, disoriented thinking, loss of balance, and shock.
I have been having stomach cramps and other misc. pains that I believe are related to Splenda. I am discontinuing and going back to cane sugar which can’t be any worse.
I have used Splenda since Oct.2008. Since I then I have had cancer,stomach problems, headaches, and some other medical problems. I am normally a healthy person. I was diagnosed with diabetes in OCT.2008. I stared using Splenda in my diet thinking that it was a healthy choice for me. But after reading this website I will be talking to my Doctor and not using this produt any more.
Thank You.
Jean Gorga
Has anyone else had low white blood cell counts? I have been using Splenda in my coffee for years and wonder if the two could be related.
I Started using Splenda back in November of 2008, then about 2 mouth later in January of 2009 Splenda has been giving me horrible problems. First it happen on first day of January at night I drink a bottle of diet rite witch that had Splenda of course! then the next morning when I woke up MY FACE WAS SOOOO! RED IT’S LIKE I GOT SUNBURN! IT BURN REALLY BAD! plus in Include I got the flu cold by using Splenda an it took a long time for me to recovery back to good health. Then a week or two later I drink instant breakfast that had Splenda in it! I had horrible gas! it felt like I could knock out bunch of people out with that toxin gas:-( then the next day I got constipation by Splenda. Then as time went by my health was really bad an I mean Bad. I know it’s long, but it was so true. I finally quit splenda:-) but I didn’t know what to use next because I didn’t really wanted to go back with sugar, now I not saying I don’t hate sugar but I just wanted to have good mount of sugar per day. So I found to best healthy all natural sweeteners.
1. Stevia a herb that’s been use in South America for 1,500 years and there been no problems and Japan been using it as a sweetener for more then 30 years an once again no problem. Sadly FDA found Stevia to be safe but due to the Aspartame company they stop Stevia by giving it fake studies to show how dangerous it is an say that Aspartame was much more safer then Stevia. So if u found problems with Steiva on the web! Don’t listen to them unless if u are on Aspartame side. Plus if u are going to use Stevia I recommend u use the real leaf by growing it, it well taste much more fresher and it has a lots of health benefit then the white powder stuff.
2. Xylitol a natural sugar alcohol that’s a another great alternative to sugar and those chemical sweeteners. Plus Xylitol looks like sugar and taste like sugar, deadpans on Ur taste buns? Best then about Xylitol is it occurs in fruits and berries, plus are body’s produces up to at least 15g of Xylitol each day. Now here are two links for two sweeteners 1.http://www.mydailymoment.com/diet_and_fitness/healthy_eating/natural_healthy_and_sweet_the_benefits_of_stevia.php?page=2
2.http://www.myxylitol.com/
Just highlight them an copy it then put it to address bar, then just click or press enter. Now for the second link go to site then click on Xylitol information.
Thank u for reading and hope this information helps for people who don’t want to use sugar.
Splenda spikes my blood pressure 25+ points … causes headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, fainting … probably due to the increase in BP. Splenda is in no doubt POISON.
Donovan Haddix RPh
I started using Splenda several years ago when it came out in the store. I use it in tea, cereal, on fruit, etc. I started noticing my vision dimming but didn’t think anything of it because I have been in graduate school and attributed it to studying for long hours. Then, I noticed problems with memory and concentration, and again, attributed it to studying and stress of school. I was shocked to read the side effects on this web site and have experienced many of them myself. I am too scared to use it now, so I think I’ll switch to Stevia, or something else that is safe. Thanks for the info.