Diabetes Science /diabetesscience Diabetes Science News - Diabetes Science Information Mon, 23 Jan 2017 06:08:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 Aspartame in diet soda linked to significant health issues, tumors /diabetesscience/2017-01-23-aspartame-linked-to-health-issues-tumors-diet-soda.html /diabetesscience/2017-01-23-aspartame-linked-to-health-issues-tumors-diet-soda.html#respond Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://162.244.66.231/diabetesscience/2017-01-23-aspartame-linked-to-health-issues-tumors-diet-soda.html They’re a popular mealtime beverage for millions of people who believe that by drinking them, they’re avoiding the pitfalls of sugar consumption. But diet soda pop is neither healthy nor safe, as research continues to show that its primary sweetening constituent in most cases, aspartame, is a damaging neurotoxin that can lead to a host of chronic health issues, including cancer.

The largest study of its kind ever conducted on aspartame was put together by researchers from the University of Iowa. They looked at 60,000 women who consumed aspartame-laden diet beverages over the course of 10 years and found that those who consume two or more diet drinks per day are significantly more prone than other women to develop cardiovascular disease — and to die from it.

The paper compared the health outcomes of women who consume diet beverages to those who don’t, observing that those who do are 30 percent more likely to suffer some kind of cardiovascular event such as a heart attack or stroke. Among those who suffer such a fate, those who consume aspartame are 50 percent more likely to die from it compared to non-diet beverage drinkers. (Related: Learn about other toxic ingredients at Ingredients.news)

Dr. Ankur Vyas, lead investigator of the study, noted that this is one of the largest studies ever to look at aspartame, and that the findings are “consistent with some previous data, especially those linking diet drinks to metabolic syndrome.”

“On average, women who consumed two or more diet drinks a day were younger, more likely to be smokers, and had a higher prevalence of diabetes, high blood pressure, and higher body mass index,” the paper explained.

Aspartame, artificial sweeteners make people fat

It is hardly surprising, then, that diet soda sales have continued to plummet year after year as research such as this continues to emerge. Folks are waking up to the dangers of aspartame and switching to healthier alternatives like local honey and stevia extract. Not only is aspartame dangerous in these many ways, but it doesn’t even do the one thing that most people falsely believe it does — help them to lose weight.

There are a number of reasons for this, not the least of which include the fact that artificial sweeteners like aspartame do not activate the food rewards pathway in the brain that tells people that they’re full, and that it’s time to stop eating. Instead, diet soda consumers can chug can after can, and bottle after bottle, of their favorite chemical-laced soft drink and simply not stop.

Aspartame specifically has also been shown in studies to actually make people more hungry than if they simply consumed sugar. Since anything that tastes sweet enhances appetite, the hunger-promoting effects of aspartame end up leading people who consume it to also consume other foods — and lots of them!

There is also evidence to suggest that consuming aspartame increases fat storage in the body. Since phenylalanine and aspartate, the two chemical components of aspartame, interfere with insulin and leptin, both of which control how fat is handled by the body, their consumption actually causes people to pack on more pounds rather than shed them.

And then there’s the science suggesting that aspartame could increase the risk of brain tumors. A 1996 study published in the Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology identified a strong correlation between aspartame consumption and brain tumors in mice, leading the researchers of that study to conclude that “there is need for reassessing the carcinogenic potential of aspartame.”

Another web resource coming soon: Sweeteners.news, covering aspartame, stevia, Sucralose and more.

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Garlic, honey and apple cider vinegar: Powerful natural mixture against indigestion, obesity /diabetesscience/2017-01-21-garlic-honey-and-apple-cider-vinegar-powerful-natural-mixture-against-indigestion-obesity.html /diabetesscience/2017-01-21-garlic-honey-and-apple-cider-vinegar-powerful-natural-mixture-against-indigestion-obesity.html#respond Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://162.244.66.231/diabetesscience/2017-01-21-garlic-honey-and-apple-cider-vinegar-powerful-natural-mixture-against-indigestion-obesity.html Science is supposedly looking for miracle cures for all sorts of ailments, yet nature consistently provides the most powerful remedies anywhere on the planet. These solutions are also typically far safer and cost pennies on the dollar compared to steep costs for conventional medical treatments. Better yet, these down-to-earth treatments are usually simple and accessible to all people. The mixture of garlic, honey and apple cider vinegar is certainly no exception to those principles. It is a powerful remedy that you can make in the comfort of your own home with ingredients you probably keep on hand.

Benefits of this naturally healthy remedy

The combination of the three ingredients yields specific advantages to anyone who mixes then drinks them. It can help to prevent and treat gastrointestinal symptoms such as indigestion, and it has also been shown to ward off weight issues like obesity. With the obesity rate climbing ever higher, having people take a few minutes to prepare this drink can certainly provide a solution to a growing problem.

Taking a look at the benefits of the three individual ingredients gives some clues as to what makes them so powerful when combined:

  • Garlic is high in allicin, which is anti-inflammatory and anti-aging. It offers a world of miraculous benefits, and when taken internally, it can be helpful for treating all sorts of infections.
  • Honey contains high levels of vitamins, minerals and enzymes, and it’s an excellent antiseptic.
  • Apple cider vinegar may provide the secret sauce in the garlic, honey and apple cider vinegar combination because of the sour-tasting liquid’s anti-obesity and indigestion-fighting properties.

You can imagine what a powerhouse you are creating when you combine the three items, in light of their individual properties and benefits even when used alone. (RELATED: Learn more news about the healing power of superfoods at Superfoods.news)

How to make this powerful mixture

Preparing for yourself a healthy drink of these three wonderful ingredients could not be easier or quicker. Simply measure out one cup of apple cider vinegar, one cup of honey and ten cloves of freshly minced garlic. Thoroughly combine the ingredients in a blender, and pour the mixture into a glass jar. Refrigerate that. Take two tablespoons of the mixture each day in the morning, before eating or drinking anything. The mixture keeps for five days, and after that it will not provide the same powerful benefits. If you would like to improve the flavor some, add a small amount of water or organic juice such as apple juice.

Tips for maximum effectiveness

To get the most healing power out of the garlic, honey and apple cider vinegar mixture, make sure you follow certain rules. First, preferably use only organic ingredients. Also, garlic should be as fresh as possible or even grown in your own garden. Avoid using garlic that feels spongy or has dried out. Honey needs to be raw and preferably local, and avoid at all costs the “fake” honey that has become more prevalent in recent years. It is a “mystery” concoction of additives masquerading as a healthy food. Use raw apple cider vinegar that contains particles, also known as the “mother,” that settle to the bottom of the bottle. Before pouring out some vinegar, shake the capped bottle vigorously to thoroughly mix the particles in with the liquid.

Additional benefits include reduced cholesterol and blood pressure, cancer treatment and diabetes improvement. What if one of the cures for those dreaded ailments is right in your kitchen? So cheers to your health, and enjoy the rewards that come from setting aside a few minutes daily to take care of yourself by drinking this remedy.

Learn more about natural remedies at Remedies.news.

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Sugar industry promotes obesity, diabetes and heart disease /diabetesscience/2017-01-21-sugar-industry-promotes-obesity-diabetes-heart-disease-and-cancer.html /diabetesscience/2017-01-21-sugar-industry-promotes-obesity-diabetes-heart-disease-and-cancer.html#respond Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://162.244.66.231/diabetesscience/2017-01-21-sugar-industry-promotes-obesity-diabetes-heart-disease-and-cancer.html Big Sugar first began its campaign against reality in 1956, shortly after President Eisenhower was photographed putting artificial sweeteners in his coffee. The President said his doctor advised he stop putting sugar in his coffee if he wanted to stay thin.

In response, the sugar industry created advertisements that maintained no singular food is fattening, and so the mantra was born: a calorie is a calorie. The ads declared that there was no difference between calories from steak or sugar. There is a degree of truth to that: if you were to eat a surplus of calories daily for a sustained period of time, you would gain weight — even if all you were eating was steak or vegetables. Calories are, at their core, a unit of energy.

However, what those calories are comprised of can have very different effects on your body. (RELATED: Learn more about harmful food ingredients at Ingredients.news)

What actually happens when you eat sugar

So when you eat sucrose, also known as table sugar, your digestive tract breaks it down into fructose and glucose. It is then transported directly to the liver via the portal vein. Fructose (and high fructose corn syrup) are especially problematic for the body: your liver will keep absorbing the fructose, even when its energy stores are full. This leads to fat deposits in the liver, and more fat circulating in your bloodstream — which raises triglycerides and cholesterol, and in turn, raises the risk for conditions like heart disease and type-2 diabetes.

Liver fat may also decrease insulin’s ability to do it’s job, which increases the risk of diabetes. And when insulin isn’t working well,  the amount of fat the liver sends out into the blood also increases. It creates a rather vicious cycle where the more sugar you eat, the sicker you become — and the less capable your body is of recovering from it.

(Related: Learn more about what you’re eating at Fresh.news)

Countless studies have pointed to sugar intake as a means of developing insulin resistance. For example, a 2007 study that was published in The Journal Of Biological Chemistry found that sucrose-sweetened water induced insulin resistance, exacerbated memory deficits and increased amyloid plaque formation in mice with Alzheimer’s disease. The team noted that their research indicated that dietary sugar plays a plausible role in the development of Alzheimer’s.

Another study found that feeding sucrose to normal, healthy rats caused a significant loss of insulin sensitivity. And you can bet there are more; decades of research have shown that sugar can, and is, harmful. As The New York Times reports, “By the 1960s, researchers in these fields had clearly demonstrated that different carbohydrates, like glucose and fructose, are metabolized differently, leading to different hormonal and physiological responses, and that fat accumulation and metabolism were influenced profoundly by these hormones.”

The detrimental health effects of sugar consumption

In spite of the understood biological processes involved that clearly demonstrate at least one pathway for sugar to cause insulin resistance and other health issues — the industry, and even the American Diabetes Association (ADA) — are clutching their pearls of denial closer than ever. A 2014 article from the ADA even went so far as to declare that there is no evidence to suggest that “any dietary or added sugar has a unique or detrimental impact relative to any other source of calories on the development of obesity or diabetes.” This sentiment is echoed throughout the nutrition industry: a calorie is a calorie. And yet, actual biology dictates that this sentiment is a fallacy.

Research links sugar consumption to everything from to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and even Alzheimer’s disease. This is not new, and the research has been going on for decades. But, there is always someone you can pay off.

In the 1970s, Fred Stare — founder of the Harvard School of Public Health — was paid off by the sugar industry to sing the praises of sugar and absolve the substance of its health crimes in a lengthy journal supplement.

In 2016, it was revealed that the last five decades of research on sugar have largely been influenced by — you guessed it — the sugar industry. Internal documents revealed that industry big-wigs were paying off scientists to play down the ill effects of sugar all the way back in 1967.

The food industry’s hold over nutrition science continues to persist to this day, preventing real research from being conducted and encouraging the consumption of a substance they know is harmful.

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Researchers: Eating organic provides much greater nutritional intake vs. conventional foods /diabetesscience/2017-01-19-eating-organic-high-nutritional-intake.html /diabetesscience/2017-01-19-eating-organic-high-nutritional-intake.html#respond Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://162.244.66.231/diabetesscience/2017-01-19-eating-organic-high-nutritional-intake.html Despite propaganda put out by the pesticide and genetically modified organism (GMO) industries, the evidence is clear: organic food has a higher nutrient content than food produced with GMOs and synthetic pesticides and fertilizers.

The issue is only increasing in relevance as consumers continue to turn to organic rather than conventionally produced foods. From 2014 to 2015, the amount consumers spent on packaged organic products went from $12.8 billion to $13.4 billion. That doesn’t include sales of organic produce, bulk dried goods, meat, or meals at organic restaurants.

Yet you’ll still hear certain scientists, along with pesticide and GMO company spokespeople, claim that organic food is no better for you than “conventional” food. What’s the truth? (RELATED: Discover more news about healthful vs. harmful food ingredients at Ingredients.news)

Dramatically higher antioxidant content

The evidence for organic foods’ superior nutrient content just keeps getting stronger. In 2011, the journal Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences published what was, at that time, one of the most sophisticated analyses of the prior research comparing nutrient content of organic and conventional foods. They found that in general, organic foods tend to be higher in antioxidants (including vitamin C) and phenolic acids, but may be lower in protein and vitamin A.

They hypothesized that the main difference between the foods is the excessive use of synthetic fertilizers in conventional agriculture, which adds much more nitrogen to the plants’ diets. This leads to a reduction in stress, causing the plants to produce fewer defense-related secondary metabolites, such as vitamin C and other antioxidants. But it may cause the plant to accumulate more nitrogen in the form of protein, and to increase the content of secondary metabolites unrelated to defense, like vitamin A.

The researchers found that the levels of secondary plant metabolite-based nutrients in organic fruits and vegetables were about 12 percent higher in organic than in non-organic produce. Defense-related secondary metabolites in particular were 16 percent higher.

“This subset encompasses most of the important, plant-based antioxidants that promote good health,” the researchers wrote.

In 2014, an even more comprehensive analysis reviewed the findings of 343 prior peer-reviewed studies on the same topic. This paper, published in the British Journal of Nutrition, was the largest such analysis ever performed.

The researchers found much stronger results than the analysis from three years prior. They found that the antioxidant content of organic fruits and vegetable was between 19 and a shocking 69 percent higher than that of non-organic produce. This difference was large enough that shifting to an all-organic diet could provide the same nutritional benefit as eating an extra two servings of fruits and vegetables daily.

Organic food lower in poisons

Higher nutrient content isn’t the only reason that organic food is better for your health, of course. Organic food is guaranteed free of GMOs, which have been linked to organ and reproductive problems.

It is also free from the residue of dangerous pesticides that have also been linked to problems across the health spectrum.

According a study published in the journal Environmental Research, switching to an organic diet can reduce an adult’s overall pesticide exposure by 90 percent. Another study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, showed the same effect over the long-term. It found that study participants who reported eating a higher proportion of organic produce showed evidence of significantly less organophosphate pesticide exposure than participants who ate mostly conventional produce.

This translates into real health benefits. According to a letter published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, you can reduce your pesticide-related health risk by 94 percent just by eating only organic forms of the top six most pesticide-intensive fruits (currently strawberries, apples, nectarines, peaches, grapes and cherries).

Despite the growing popularity and increasingly strong case for organic foods, farmers have been slow to convert their farmland to organic production. Several major food companies are now offering monetary incentives to help farmers make the switch.

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5 reasons why you should be ‘dying’ to cut back on sugar /diabetesscience/2017-01-19-5-reasons-why-you-should-be-dying-to-cut-back-on-sugar.html /diabetesscience/2017-01-19-5-reasons-why-you-should-be-dying-to-cut-back-on-sugar.html#respond Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://162.244.66.231/diabetesscience/2017-01-19-5-reasons-why-you-should-be-dying-to-cut-back-on-sugar.html Some people try to cut their sugar intake to help prevent cavities or in an attempt to try to shed a few pounds. However, even if you are blessed with exceptional dental health and a trim figure, there are plenty of other excellent reasons you should kick sugar to the curb.

In a new book called The Case Against Sugar, health journalist Gary Taubes singles out sugar as the main reason that people around the world are dying every second from diseases that were once unheard of in places that did not consume a Western diet or adopt a Western lifestyle. Here is a look at five of the best reasons you might want to skip the candy aisle and give up sugar for good. (RELATED: Learn more about harmful food ingredients at Ingredients.news)

Sugar can feed cancer

Consuming sugar can lead to insulin resistance, which occurs when cells can no longer respond to insulin in an effective manner. This spurs the body to produce more insulin to make up for it, and cancer calls need insulin to grow. This means that the connection between sugar and cancer is hard to deny. In particular, scientists have found that cancer cells use fructose in the process of dividing and reproducing.

Sugar can cause heart disease

Sugar’s ability to prompt the body to make extra insulin is also linked to high blood pressure and heart disease. The excess insulin stimulates the nervous system, which boosts the heart rate and constricts blood vessels. In fact, a study in JAMA Internal Medicine recently noted that sugar is now believed to be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

Sugar consumption is also strongly linked to type-2 diabetes, especially when sugar consumption is combined with a sedentary lifestyle.

Sugar can boost your dementia risk

While the exact mechanisms of dementia remain a mystery, researchers think that the insulin resistance that comes from a high sugar intake impairs certain brain functions, stunting the brain’s ability to get rid of the plaques believed to cause Alzheimer’s disease. While some people believe dementia is inevitable, leading UK dementia specialist Dr. Naji Tabet says that it can be stopped or delayed in about a quarter of patients who are destined to develop it by reducing their sugar intake and body mass index.

Sugar can make smoking even worse for you

As if sugar didn’t already have a lot of very effective ways to send you to an early grave, Taubes points out that it can also join forces with that other deadly habit, smoking, to enable smokers to inhale the toxic smoke of cigarettes more deeply, boosting the absorption of carcinogens and nicotine cravings in one fell swoop.

Sugar is highly addictive

Sugar is so addictive that some experts have labeled it the most powerful addiction in the world, surpassing heroin, nicotine and cocaine. Breaking free from the habit might be one of the best things you ever do for your health, but it will also likely be one of the most difficult.

Quitting cold turkey is a common and uncomplicated approach. Don’t make the mistake of turning to toxic sweeteners. Consuming a bit of protein every few hours and sipping on herbal tea can help keep cravings at bay while you get through the withdrawal phase. You’ll not only improve your health, but you’ll also feel a lot better and more energized after a week or two – right around the time those cravings subside for good.

With the average American ingesting 150 pounds of refined sugar each year, Taubes gave the New York Post some interesting food for thought when he said that the single best way to fix the American diet is to cut out nearly all sugar.

Dessert menu? We’ll pass.

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Doctor sells practice in New York; buys New Jersey farm to offer plant-based medicine /diabetesscience/2017-01-19-doctor-buys-farm-in-new-york-sells-practice-to-offer-plant-based-medicine.html /diabetesscience/2017-01-19-doctor-buys-farm-in-new-york-sells-practice-to-offer-plant-based-medicine.html#respond Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://162.244.66.231/diabetesscience/2017-01-19-doctor-buys-farm-in-new-york-sells-practice-to-offer-plant-based-medicine.html After 25 years of treating patients in the conventional manner, Dr. Ronald Weiss has sold his West New York practice to establish New Jersey’s first farm-based medical facility on a 348-acre plot of land in Long Valley.

The community-supported Ethos Health agricultural program Weiss has founded is based on the principle that food is medicine, and that diet can be more effective than pharmaceutical drugs in the prevention and treatment of disease. (RELATED: Read about food as medicine to prevent disease at Prevention.news)

“Plant-based whole foods are the most powerful disease-modifying tools available to practitioners — more powerful than any drugs or surgeries,” Weiss told NJ.com. “I am talking about treating and preventing chronic disease — the heart attacks, the strokes, the cardiovascular disease, the cancers … the illnesses that are taking our economy and our nation down.”

The 348-acre ‘farmacy’ feeds 90 families

Weiss’s undergraduate degree in botany has no doubt come in handy in setting up his “farmacy.” And with the assistance of two local farmers, the project is now producing fresh organic fruits, vegetables and herbs for 90 families.

In turn, the families pay a membership fee and perform volunteer work on the farm, such as picking produce or pulling weeds. This helps people take a greater interest in the foods they eat – an awareness that is the foundation of good health, according to Weiss.

“Human health is directly related to the health of the environment, the production of food and how it is grown,” Weiss said. “I see this farm as an opportunity for me to take everything I’ve done all my life, all the biology and chemistry of plants I have studied, and link them to the human biological system.”

Although many mainstream medical practitioners continue to express skepticism regarding the “food as medicine” philosophy, there’s a growing body of evidence suggesting that it really works, and some of Weiss’s patients are good examples.

‘More than a miracle’

For instance, 90-year-old Angelina Rotella was able to recover from chronic heart disease and diabetes by switching to Weiss’s plant-based dietary prescription.

Rotella was confined a wheelchair and suffering from congestive heart failure when she first visited Dr. Weiss. Eight months later, after changing her diet, she had lost 40 pounds and was able to get around without the wheelchair.

Her daughter, Angie Rotella-Suarez, called it “more than a miracle,” and after witnessing their mother’s dramatic improvement, Rotella-Suarez and her sister also switched to Weiss’s vegan diet plan, enabling them both to also lose 40 pounds and reverse their pre-diabetic status.

Weiss is encouraged by those within the medical profession who advocate a plant-based diet, such as Kim A. Williams, former president of the American College of Cardiology, who has written essays on the subject and spoken out about his own experiences. Williams has said that he succeeded in lowering his cholesterol levels on a vegan diet after failing to do so on a low-fat diet.

Other health experts remain critical of the concept, labeling all-plant diets as “still experimental.”

Whether or not a strict vegan diet is superior to one that includes some protein obtained from meat is open to debate, but what does seem clear is that primarily consuming fresh organic fruits and vegetables is the true prescription for good health.

It doesn’t take a medical degree to understand that what you put in your body not only affects but actually determines your state of health – and in fact, a conventional education in medicine tends to steer people away from that realization.

One of the reasons that plant-based medicine is still considered “fringe” appears to be that the medical establishment feels threatened by an approach that might put them out of business.

Big Pharma and the cancer industry would simply cease to exist if plant-based therapies and remedies became mainstream. Stay informed about the healing benefits of fresh foods at Fresh.news.

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Why Sugar Is as Bad as Alcohol (Video) /diabetesscience/2017-01-18-why-sugar-is-as-bad-as-alcohol-video.html /diabetesscience/2017-01-18-why-sugar-is-as-bad-as-alcohol-video.html#respond Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://162.244.66.231/diabetesscience/2017-01-18-why-sugar-is-as-bad-as-alcohol-video.html Why sugar is just as bad as alcohol:

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Twisted: Splenda actually promotes weight gain, study finds /diabetesscience/2017-01-16-twisted-splenda-actually-promotes-weight-gain.html /diabetesscience/2017-01-16-twisted-splenda-actually-promotes-weight-gain.html#respond Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://162.244.66.231/diabetesscience/2017-01-16-twisted-splenda-actually-promotes-weight-gain.html With obesity being so widespread throughout the United States, most people are looking for any means by which to lower their body weight. Those who believe in the tried and true will exercise regularly and make dietary discretions to safely keep their weight under control. Others, who want to continue to experience the comforts that they have grown used to, will use other means to do so. Some will go to great lengths, such as having surgical procedures performed while others sometimes take a very detrimental, and potentially deadly, route into the world of anorexia and/or bulimia. Then there are those who will substitute one harmful substance, such as sugar, for another. Often times, though, the replacement can be just as horrible, if not more so, for the human body than what it is taking the place of.

One of those substances is an artificial sweetener which has recently come under scrutiny in a “first of its kind” study published in the European Journal of Nutrition. Sucralose, which you may know better as Splenda, was shown to have an adverse effect on thyroid axis activity in male rats. Essentially, sucralose has the qualities of an endocrine disruptor in mammals. The end result is that thyroid hormone is suppressed, there is an increase in appetite in the test subject and consequently weight gain is also noted. (RELATED: Stay up to date on news about chemical sweeteners at Sweeteners.news)

People who are replacing sugar with Splenda to control their weight may actually be doing more harm to themselves than if they had just used regular sugar, and the problems don’t end solely with weight issues. In fact, including neurotoxicity, there are over 15 signals of harm linked to this chemical sweetener.

This information is in addition to the fact that when heated, sucralose created carcinogenic dioxins. Researchers have used this information alone to classify sucralose alongside toxic pesticides such as DDT. This is even further, and frighteningly, compounded by mass media commercials (and even the Splenda Baking and Cooking website) which advertise Splenda as a safe sugar substitute for tasks such as baking.

Those same commercials use “safe” imagery of a woman baking with Splenda while holding her child. Even if that child doesn’t consume any of the baked goods his mother is creating, another study has already shown that sucralose contaminates 65% of the breast milk of those who ingest it. While parents may think they are making a healthier decision, at least for themselves, in all actuality they are exposing their children to the toxic effects of this artificial sweetener.

It does appear that there may be some light on the horizon when dealing with sucralose. In 2013, the Center for the Public Interest in Science removed sucraloses classification as being “safe” and reclassified it under the “caution” moniker. Another study also showed that Splenda had an effect on diabetes-associated changes, such as an increase in both blood and insulin levels.

The question eventually must arise as to when these tests will be performed on human participants instead of other mammals. Aside from the fact that the cost would be highly prohibitive, the explanation that is of more importance is the ethics behind performing chemical safety testing on living human beings. This gives companies like Splenda who use sucralose a tremendous amount of leeway in saying that while the harmful effects are visible in lab rats under the guidelines of a controlled environment, it is possible that the same effects would not be commonplace in human beings. Thus, the outward declarations of products that use sucralose in any capacity to be promoting a healthier life won’t technically be construed as false advertising until further testing can be performed.

Stay informed about the toxicity or healing properties of food ingredients at Ingredients.news.

 

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Sugar, The Food Industry’s Secret Weapon is Addictive & in 80% of Foods (Video) /diabetesscience/2017-01-16-sugar-the-food-industrys-secret-weapon-is-addictive-in-80-of-foods-video.html /diabetesscience/2017-01-16-sugar-the-food-industrys-secret-weapon-is-addictive-in-80-of-foods-video.html#respond Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://162.244.66.231/diabetesscience/2017-01-16-sugar-the-food-industrys-secret-weapon-is-addictive-in-80-of-foods-video.html This video explores the addictive nature of sugar, why it’s in all our food and how it is affecting our brains, bodies and overall health.

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Urgent message to Tom Price and Donald Trump: How to save billions of dollars every year on health care with low-cost nutritional therapies that really prevent costly diseases /diabetesscience/2017-01-15-urgent-message-tom-price-donald-trump-how-to-save-billions-of-dollars-every-year-on-health-care-with-low-cost-nutritional-therapies-prevent-costly-diseases.html /diabetesscience/2017-01-15-urgent-message-tom-price-donald-trump-how-to-save-billions-of-dollars-every-year-on-health-care-with-low-cost-nutritional-therapies-prevent-costly-diseases.html#respond Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://162.244.66.231/diabetesscience/2017-01-15-urgent-message-tom-price-donald-trump-how-to-save-billions-of-dollars-every-year-on-health-care-with-low-cost-nutritional-therapies-prevent-costly-diseases.html Watch and share this urgent message to HHS Secretary Tom Price and President-elect Donald Trump that provides powerful solutions for replacing Obamacare. (See the full video below.)

It all hinges on the simple but powerful idea that you can never make disease treatment “affordable” until you stop the causes of disease in the first place.

There are incredibly simple, low-cost and science-based solutions available right now that can:

  • Slash cancer rates in America by one-third over four years.
  • Save the government over a hundred billion dollars in prescription medicine costs each year.
  • Drastically reduce expenditures on expensive diseases that only transfer profits to the cancer industry, insurance companies, hospitals and drug manufacturers.

These solutions are so incredibly simple and affordable that I estimate the federal government could save $100 for every $1 investment in these solutions. (Yes, that’s a 10,000% return on investment!)

I have a list of 100 powerful ideas for rescuing America’s health and drastically reducing health care costs that I’m ready to share with the Trump administration. They include simple but powerful ideas like #43) Disallow food stamp expenditures on diabetes-promoting soda and soft drinks!

Watch my video below to hear more powerful solutions that can help Make America Great Again. (And yes, Big Pharma is going to go berserk when they hear this, because it threatens literally trillions of dollars in pharmaceutical profits that are bankrupting this great nation…)

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