But if you thought we were ridiculous, check out Dr. Janet Starr Hull’s book: Splenda®: Is It Safe Or Not?.
Now, no one gives something a title like that if the answer is “why yes, yes it is, completely harmless. Sorry to cause the fuss”. But this book doesn’t stop there, it promises to save your children from toxins, and identify the cause of ‘vague health symptoms that puzzle your doctor’. I deeply suspect it will also walk your dog, reconcile you with your ex, and make your teenage son love you again.
It’s only deep into the website that the true oddness pops up- Hull is a Saccarine fan! Yes, despite the ‘misleading report 20 years ago’ that it causes cancer, Saccarine and not Splenda is the answer to all your problems. In case you didn’t get the picture, she advocates you to use the packet’s color coding: Yellow(Splenda) means caution, whereas the happy pink of Sween n’ Low means sweet safety!
Yet, this is only the second book that our good doctor has published. Her first one is “Sweetpoison“, a book on the dangers of Aspartame (NutraSweet). its description is surprisingly similar.
I can’t help feeling like maybe Dr. Hull, who lists her qualifications as “.. Licensed Certified Nutritionist, certified fitness professional, author and aspartame victim”, should maybe be taken with a grain of salt.
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18May
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As a classically trained professional chef, I have to say that the author of this book is actually right. Sweet ‘n low (saccharin), Nutrasweet/Equal (aspartame), and Splenda (chemically modified sugars) are all different forms of non-nutrive sweeteners, and they all affect the body in strange ways, with Splenda being the worst offender of all. Personally, I recommend stevia, as it was just legalised in this country (the Japanese use it all the time), and it’s starting to become available all over the place….
Janet Starr Hull is a dangerous lunatic. As if there aren’t enough self-proclaimed “nutritionists” peddling snake oil out there. The Center for Science in the Public Interest is the only source I trust.
Saw one of Janet’s newsletters where she was saying “you shouldn’t live in fear” – this from one of the biggest fear mongers anywhere. What a hypocrite!
Read her idiotic “Sweet Poison” book several years back, trashed it afterward so that no one else would be subjected to the uninformed drivel of that copy at least.
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I would never recommend Splenda. After living for two months with incredible intestinal pain and discomfort, I realized it was because of Splenda which I’d switched to as part of a lower-carb diet. It’s unnatural chemical garbage.
I agree with The Good Rabbi & the author of this book…She is RIGHT!!! …
“Sweet ‘n low (saccharin), Nutrasweet/Equal (aspartame), and Splenda (chemically modified sugars) are all different forms of non-nutrive sweeteners, and they all affect the body in strange ways, with Splenda being the worst offender of all. Personally, I recommend stevia, as it was just legalised in this country (the Japanese use it all the time), and it’s starting to become available all over the place….” I also recommend STEVIA.. I work in a Pharmacy, my husband & oldest daughter are both Registered Pharmacists, my son is in Pharmacy school now & my youngest daughter is a Certified Pharmacy Technician and the sweetener of choice used in sweetened prescriptions is STEVIA… ever wondered why?????