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this article.
THE LETHAL SCIENCE OF SPLENDA,
A POISONOUS CHLOROCARBON
By James Bowen, M.D.
http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm
Posted: 08 May 2005
James Bowen, M.D., A physician, biochemist, and survivor of aspartame poisoning
warns about yet another synthetic sweetener, Splenda.
Hawaii, May 8, 2005 -- The chemical sucralose, marketed as "Splenda", has
replaced aspartame as the #1 artificial sweetener in foods and beverages.
Aspartame has been forced out by increasing public awareness that it is both a
neurotoxin and an underlying cause of chronic illness worldwide. Dr. James
Bowen, Researcher and biochemist, reports:
"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.
"Sucralose is a molecule of sugar chemically manipulated to surrender three
hydroxyl groups (hydrogen + oxygen) and replace them with three chlorine atoms.
Natural sugar is a hydrocarbon built around 12 carbon atoms. When turned into
Splenda it becomes a chlorocarbon, in the family of Chlorodane, Lindane and DDT.
"It is logical to ask why table salt, which also contains chlorine, is safe
while Splenda/sucralose is toxic? Because salt isn't a chlorocarbon. When
molecular chemistry binds sodium to chlorine to make salt carbon isn't
included. Sucralose and salt are as different as oil and water.
"Unlike sodium chloride, chlorocarbons are never nutritionally compatible with
our metabolic processes and are wholly incompatible with normal human metabolic
functioning. When chlorine is chemically reacted into carbon-structured organic
compounds to make chlorocarbons, the carbon and chlorine atoms bind to each
other by mutually sharing electrons in their outer shells. This arrangement
adversely affects human metabolism because our mitochondrial and cellular
enzyme systems are designed to completely utilize organic molecules containing
carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and other compatible nutritional elements.
"By this process chlorocarbons such as sucralose deliver chlorine directly into
our cells through normal metabolization. This makes them effective insecticides
and preservatives. Preservatives must kill anything alive to prevent bacterial
decomposition."
Dr. Bowen believes ingested chlorocarbon damage continues with the formation of
other toxins: "Any chlorocarbons not directly excreted from the body intact can
cause immense damage to the processes of human metabolism and, eventually, our
internal organs. The liver is a detoxification organ which deals with ingested
poisons. Chlorocarbons damage the hepatocytes, the liver's metabolic cells, and
destroy them.
In test animals Splenda produced swollen livers, as do all chlorocarbon
poisons, and also calcified the kidneys of test animals in toxicity studies.
The brain and nervous system are highly subject to metabolic toxicities and
solvency damages by these chemicals. Their high solvency attacks the human
nervous system and many other body systems including genetics and the immune
function. Thus, chlorocarbon poisoning can cause cancer, birth defects, and
immune system destruction. These are well known effects of Dioxin and PCBs
which are known deadly chlorocarbons."
Dr. Bowen continues: "Just like aspartame, which achieved marketplace approval
by the Food and Drug Administration when animal studies clearly demonstrated
its toxicity, sucralose also failed in clinical trials with animals. Aspartame
created brain tumors in rats. Sucralose has been found to shrink thymus glands
(the biological seat of immunity) and produce liver inflammation in rats and
mice.
"In the coming months we can expect to see a river of media hype expounding the
virtues of Splenda/sucralose. 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.
"Synthetic chemical sweeteners are generally unsafe for human consumption. This
toxin was given the chemical name "sucralose" which is a play on the technical
name of natural sugar, sucrose. One is not the other. One is food, the other is
toxic; don't be deceived."
Dr. Bowen also calls attention to another seldom recognized and deadly
permanent effect of these chemicals: "Aspartame, sold as NutraSweet, Equal,
E951, Canderel, Benevia
