Alarming study finds Splenda linked to leukemia

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New Animal Study Indicates Cancer Risk

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The Center for Science in the Public Interest has downgraded its safety rating of sucralose, the artificial sweetener also known by the brand name Splenda, from “caution” to “avoid” in the group’s Chemical Cuisine glossary of food additives. The nonprofit food safety and nutrition watchdog group is citing a newly published study from the respected Ramazzini Institute, an independent laboratory based in Italy, which found that the chemical caused leukemia and related blood cancers in male mice.

Another small study noted an increase in blood sugar and glucose versus drinking water alone.



http://www.cspinet.org/new/201602081.html
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles ... -study.htm

[ChromaKey]

Perhaps refined sugars like sucrose and fructose should be approached as if they were a drug, and most sugar substitutes as an undesirable means of maintaining a sweet tooth habit or palette...

The World Health Organization is dropping its sugar intake recommendations from 10 percent of your daily calorie intake to 5 percent. For an adult of a normal body mass index (BMI), that works out to about 6 teaspoons -- or 25 grams -- of sugar per day...

(full article) http://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-healt ... endations/

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Moderation in all things?