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Splenda – Tate & Lyle’s suppression of the facts.
Dr Joe Mercola has campaigned against the artificial sweetener industry for many years, accumulating a huge body of evidence about the health risks associated with both Aspartame (NutraSweet) and Splenda (Sucralose).
I recently looked up his latest webpage on Splenda, found at:
http://www.mercola.com/2005/oct/15/splendas_newest_rival_for_sucralose_nutrasweet.htm
and was greeted by the following message:
”Attorneys acting on behalf of the manufacturers of sucralose, Tate & Lyle PLC based in London, England, have requested that information contained on this page is not made available to internet users in England.“
Welcome to the world of Tate & Lyle in the UK, where the qualities of lively criticism and informed debate, once so enshrined in our economic and political life, are discarded so easily on the altar of corporate greed.
Fortunately, as is usual, greed is mixed with ignorance in roughly equal measure. If you are UK-based, you can easily view Joe Mercola’s offending webpages by using an anonymous proxy-server which sounds terribly technical but its all so simple. Use it, and no-one can tell where you are surfing from, so Joe Mercola’s page doesn’t know you are from the UK. Here’s how…
Go to:
http://www.the-cloak.com/login.html
and type in the Splenda webpage address (the ‘mercola’ one listed above) as the ‘Starting URL’. Wait a while, then BINGO! Us sensitive souls in the UK can now view what the rest of the world is allowed to see! But, Sssh! Don’t tell Tate & Lyle!
What is it exactly that is so damaging to Tate & Lyle? Splenda is yielding them untold millions in annual profits, and is being added to hundreds of new foods as I write. What can they actually be worried about from an American website? Why not engage in an honest debate, for instance as opposed to heavy-handed legal tactics. And why is my mind turning to the recent example of Robert Maxwell where the threat of libel action (which is ruinously expensive to defend in the UK) was used consistently to silence criticism and debate, and to suppress the truth at the expense of thousands of pensioners.
Throughout history the suppression of criticism has been used to hide unpalatable truths – many of which Joe Mercola exposes. And this is not an isolated example:
On August 10th 2004, I published an article in the Argus newspaper headed: ”Junk mail highlights a problem junk food“, which complained of free samples of this poisonous brew being thrust through my letterbox, in very child-friendly packaging. Within days my newspaper received a litany of threats from Tate & Lyle’s lawyers including being held liable for lost profits…
With only hours to respond before the deadline imposed by Tate & Lyle, the newspaper was forced to apologise or risk bankruptcy. At the centre of the apology was the acceptance that Sucralose is not one of a group of substances known as ‘Chlorocarbons’.
According to Tate & Lyle, sucralose is a ‘chlorocarbohydrate’. The distinction is essential, since chlorocarbons are, mostly, fatal when ingested, whereas chlorocarbohydrates are…well… no-one seems to know; this is a term that appears to have been invented by Tate & Lyle. No chemists I have spoken to have ever heard of a chloro-carbohydrate and the only references I have been able to find have been from Tate & Lyle own literature. So what is the truth? Here’s what James Bowen MD has to say on the matter:
”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.“
James Bowen’s full article may be viewed at:
http://www.wnho.net/splenda_chlorocarbon.htm
(do please get there before Tate & Lyle’s lawyers see it!)
Turning to Dr. Janet Starr Hull’s latest book ”Splenda: Is it safe or Not?“ page 21 highlights the fate of research animals fed on Splenda:
1) Unexplained death
2) Shrunken thymus glands
3) Enlarged liver and kidneys
4) Atrophy of lymph follicles in the spleen and thymus
5) Reduced growth rate
6) Decreased white blood-cell count
7) Hyperplasia of the pelvis
8) Extension of the pregnancy period
9) Aborted pregnancy
10) Decreased foetal body weight and placental weights
11) Chronic diarrhoea
12) Maternal gastro-intestinal disturbances
One can only hope, as the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) clearly does, that the fate of experimental animals bears no relationship to the fate of human consumers.
I am arranging for my own original banned article to posted onto a website hosted in Murmansk, or possibly Vladivostok – which should be safe enough for a while at least, although Tate & Lyle’s firefighters will get to it sooner or later I expect. In the meantime, remember that all artificial sweeteners are predominantly a method to make cheap poor-quality processed food taste just a little better, as cheaply as possible. The French Revolution lecturer in EM Forster’s prescient ”The Machine Stops“ novella phrases it thus: ‘Gilding each new decay…with splendour’ (sic).
Martina is a qualified nutritionist practising at The Dolphin House Clinic, Brighton (Tel: 01273-324790). email: martina@thehealthbank.co.uk
For further background information and references on this topic, please visit www.janethull.com. You may also be interested in reading :
This article is in response to one published August 2004, Brighton Argus, withdrawn under threat of libel action by lawyers acting for Tate & Lyle.
Copyright 2005 Martina Watts All Rights Reserved www.martinawatts.com
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