Additives and Food Substitutes
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.

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