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"A new study finds a chemical formed when we digest a widely used sweetener is "genotoxic," meaning it breaks up DNA."
"To put this in context, the European Food Safety Authority has a threshold of toxicological concern for all genotoxic substances of 0.15 micrograms per person per day," Schiffman says. "Our work suggests that the trace amounts of sucralose-6-acetate in a single, daily sucralose-sweetened drink exceed that threshold. And that's not even accounting for the amount of sucralose-6-acetate produced as metabolites after people consume sucralose."
"The purpose of this study was to determine the toxicological and pharmacokinetic properties of sucralose-6-acetate, a structural analog of the artificial sweetener sucralose...
a high-throughput genotoxicity screening tool, and a micronucleus (MN) test that detects cytogenetic damage both indicated that sucralose-6-acetate is genotoxic. The mechanism of action was classified as clastogenic (produces DNA strand breaks)...
and an RNA-seq analysis was performed to determine gene expression induced by these exposures. Sucralose-6-acetate significantly increased the expression of genes associated with inflammation, oxidative stress, and cancer"
"Cells in our body are exposed daily to endogenous and exogenous sources that damage their DNA...
Exogenous sources include ultraviolet (UV) light from the sun, ionizing radiation (IR), genotoxic chemicals, and carcinogens that are inhaled or ingested[5].
Unrepaired DNA damage can induce cancer-causing mutations, cell death or senescence, and aging."
"What this review demonstrates is that rats with intermittent access to food and a sugar solution can show both a constellation of behaviors and parallel brain changes that are characteristic of rats that voluntarily self-administer addictive drugs. In the aggregate, this is evidence that sugar can be addictive."
"Again, both artificial sweeteners and regular sugar are addictive. But the research shows that long-term use of artificial sweeteners may be particularly detrimental to your body."
"By Robert J. Samuelson; Samuelson regularly writes about economic affairs for the National Journal and from which tis article is reprinted.; Copyright (c November 1, 1977"
"As a result, the federal government is, in essence, the leader of a nationwide sugar cartel."
www.cato.org...
U.S. sugar policy also justifiably furthers suspicions among the citizenry that the federal government is more concerned with advancing the narrow interests of well‐connected groups such as sugar producers than promoting the country’s general welfare."
originally posted by: datguy'''
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You would be negligent not to ask, are the Sugar barons plotting to destroy humanity?
originally posted by: datguy
Now some may debate the anecdotal circumstances of trade regulations but I would argue that, like the oil companies which knew they were adversely effecting our environment. Like the tobacco companies, which knew the were killing smokers. Like pharmaceutical companies knew they were/are experimenting on the population. These sugar cartels know what is happening.
Combined with Government programs of the past which show they don't care about us much.
You would be negligent not to ask, are the Sugar barons plotting to destroy humanity?
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: vonclod
Sugar is without a doubt, our 1st addiction..a gateway drug..lol
I have no doubt that sugar is bad for us, and all the alternatives even worse.
I think non-sugar carbs are worst if we think of addiction...
originally posted by: ITSALIVE
It’s interesting cigarettes require a minimum age to purchase and are required to have warning labels. Your insurance wants you to tell your doctor if you smoke and insist on asking. But sugar? Why is one OK? a reply to: datguy
originally posted by: vonclod
I think it's all bad, but as kids in the late 60s and into the 70s, it was just sugar, and we definitely craved it.
originally posted by: datguy
All carbs are metabolized into sugars before they enter the bloodstream.
granted they are not artificial sugars, I just understand it as; carbs are addictive because so much of them are metabolized into sugar