Additives and Food Substitutes

October 4, 2011 0 Comments

This week I was thinking food additives and food substitutes. It got me thinking about the word "food." I realized I didn’t have a good definition of it. So I looked in Webster’s:
"food (f00d), n.

1. any nourishing substance that is eaten, drunk, or otherwise taken into the body to sustain life, provide energy, promote growth, etc."

Is sucralose (Splenda) food? Is Aspartame (Nutrisweet) food? Is MSG food?

Not according to this definition. If they are not food, then they don’t sustain life, provide energy, or promote growth. We could call them "anti-food."
Splenda in my opinion qualifies as anti-food.

Here is all you want to know about it.

http://www.sweetpoison.com/newsletter/december-2003.html

DR. JANET STARR HULL’S HEALTHY NEWSLETTER
http://www.sweetpoison.com/newsletter/december-2003.html
December 2003

Bottom line:

Splenda? Research in animals has shown that sucralose can cause problems such as:

Shrunken thymus glands (up to 40% shrinkage)
Enlarged liver and kidneys
Atrophy of lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus
Increased cecal weight
Reduced growth rate
Decreased red blood cell count
Hyperplasia of the pelvis
Extension of the pregnancy period
Aborted pregnancy
Decreased fetal body weights and placental weights
Diarrhea

Want these effects in your body? Go with stevia, honey, xylose, or molasses. What is most interesting is that people who consume artificial sugar substitutes gain weight while on them. They don’t lose.