Sport Sucralose (Splenda)

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Well... It has just hit me - Sucralose is way to good to be true. I mean zero calories for something so good and tasty; hell it's sugar! Well having nothing better to do, I researched Sucralose and found out some interesting things. First let's look at how Sucralose is made...

The process selectively replaces three hydrogen-oxygen groups on the sugar molecule with three chlorine atoms. Chlorine is present naturally in many of the foods and beverages that we eat and drink every day ranging from lettuce, mushrooms and table salt.
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So you went from sugar, to a toxic substance. But, hell we eat salt, that's a toxic too right? Yes but it's a toxic that's identifiable by our bodies - so it can be processed and removed. But Sucralose is not a natural toxic, so how does our body deal with it? I don't know ;-) , lol - so don't ask me. So I've stopped eating Splenda, and replaced it with some less processed cane sugar. The way I see it 30 calories extra from the sugar is a lot safer than splenda.

I'm not here to bash Splenda - maybe I'll come back to it once more research is done. Anyways that's just my 2 cents because I haven't posted most of the summer.
 
Servo888 said:
Well... It has just hit me - Sucralose is way to good to be true. I mean zero calories for something so good and tasty; hell it's sugar! Well having nothing better to do, I researched Sucralose and found out some



So you went from sugar, to a toxic substance. But, hell we eat salt, that's a toxic too right? Yes but it's a toxic that's identifiable by our bodies - so it can be processed and removed. But Sucralose is not a natural toxic, so how does our body deal with it? I don't know ;-) , lol - so don't ask me. So I've stopped eating Splenda, and replaced it with some less processed cane sugar. The way I see it 30 calories extra from the sugar is a lot safer than splenda.

I'm not here to bash Splenda - maybe I'll come back to it once more research is done. Anyways that's just my 2 cents because I haven't posted most of the summer.
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What do you mean by less processed cane sugar?? Sugar in the raw maybe. What is the difference in this and processed sugar as far as good or not for you? :confused:
 
Sugar is sucrose. Sucrose is glucose and fructose. Fructose is a natural sugar found in fruits. Glucose is dextrose, a chemical your brain needs to function. I've never seen any data that concludes sugar is toxic to a human body in high doses.

It is however bad for weight gain. Sucrose and more importantly fructose is pure carbs and is a factor for weight gain. Its also a blood sugar so in high, long term amounts it can have health effects like high blood pressure and type II diabetes (or effect diabetes). Tooth decay is also a concern.

I never knew sucrolose was chlorine until I saw this. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. The really important thing to remember is the FDA states it safe but has done NO LONG TERM EFFECTS testing.

Do you remember Aspartame? Saccharin? Given the track record of artificial sweeteners I'd be skeptical of yet another that hasn't been tested for long term effects.

Its also why I'm leary about most supplements and vitamins. Bad enough the FDA doesnt do much... but letting companies do their own research and pass their products...

What do you mean by less processed cane sugar?? Sugar in the raw maybe. What is the difference in this and processed sugar as far as good or not for you?
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I'm not sure but I've read that refined sugar removed the protein/bonds found in raw sugar and leaves just the pure carbohydrate (which if I read right, your body can't quite break down by itself). I think I'll try to dig some info up later.
 
Innocent until proven guilty, is what I say.
I'm simply tired of people crying wolf about supplements without proof. That's the reason ephdra is gone, as well as most of the legal pro-steroids that worked. now all we have is caffine pills and crap hormones that convert to estrogen instead of test.
 
As far as the less processed surgar goes - there really isn't a major reason for it. It does retain some of the nutrients, and it's also a lot sweeter than normal sugar. So less sugar, similiar taste.
 
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