Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, Nutrasweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health

by Joseph Mercola and Kendra Degen Pearsall

Book Overview

Most people believe that sucralose (Splenda) is a perfectly safe artificial sweetener. Big business and the FDA have fostered that dangerous misconception. The truth is Splenda is by no means safe; and the same is true for many of the other artificial sweeteners being marketed today. Dr. Joseph Mercola---supported by extensive studies and research---exposes the fact that Splenda actually contributes to a host of serious diseases. Sweet Deception will...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785221794
• ISBN13: 9780785221791
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"

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What you need to know about the sweets

For probably all of my adult life or at least since college, I have been enamored with green tea. I drank generous amounts bottled ice teas any time I ventured into a convenience store. Arizona was my brand because they were the ones offering a veritable cornucopia of iced tea products from the sweet and well-known fruit teas (my favorite was peach) to the more exotic teas that I had never heard of such as black tea. When I tried their green tea, I was hooked. Later on as I jumped on the no-carb bandwagon and became searching for zero calorie drinks, they satisfied this junkies cravings with what would become my lifeblood for many years to come, diet green tea. Each bottle of diet green had a peculiar label on it that I never paid much attention to. The tag read in large friendly letters, "Made with Splenda." I figured with the FDA around it really didn't matter what the heck Splenda was, I felt confident that if it was in my diet green tea, then it had to be good. Around this time I noticed copious amounts of the individual sweetener packets in my mothers kitchen where the sugar and the Sweet N Low used to be. My mother and all of the other yenta's that frequented our abode would rave about the wonders of Splenda over any number of pastries or bagels. My mother to this day sings its praises as a dietary wonder product. What fools we have been! According to osteopathic physician and surgeon, Dr. Joseph Mercola and Naturopathic Medical Doctor Kendra Degen Pearsall, authors of the new book, "Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, NutraSweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health," Splenda is about as safe as ingesting DDT (no, not Jake Roberts wrestling finisher, the poisonous pesticide). As a matter of fact, Splenda and DDT are chemically speaking, remarkably similar according to the above authors. When I think about the gallons and gallons of diet green tea and other beverages containing Splenda I have consumed, I get a little more than queasy. The good doctors have written a book that blows the lid on the real affects and history of sugar abuse, artificial sweeteners and just how corrupted the Food and Drug Administration have become. Because "Sweet Deception" is a comprehensive review of the sugar industry as well as a critique of the FDA, it is an indispensable tool for those who are trying in the face of insurmountable odds to better their health and maintain a healthy diet. At the very least, it provides good source material for people to check out and compare their diet against. After all, if you don't know what's in the food you are eating, then you can't combat against it. The first chapter deals exclusively with sugar. Sugar has a storied life and is partially responsible for some of the more negative aspects of human history such as environmental degradation of the Everglades and slavery in the Colonial Era. But beyond being a dubious resource it is also a major factor in our collective health. Sugar in it's most basi

I WAS A TYPICAL DIET COKE JUNKIE UNTIL I READ THIS!

If you are someone who puts artificial sweetener in your coffee or tea, drinks diet soda, chews gum, eats anything 'sugar free' or 'no sugar added' or any other type of low calorie food WHATSOEVER, then you need to do yourself a huge favor read this book. It is an excellent whistle blowing tell-all about the real relationships of the FDA, the food manufacturers (that make the garbage the we are ingesting), the lobbyists that represent them and what these horrible TOXINS called artificial sweeteners are doing to us physically and mentally. I read this book in a 24 hour period because I could not put it down!! This book gives real meaning to the term 'truth is stranger than fiction'. I am probably the typical American consumer, having a morning cup of coffee with Splenda, a diet coke (or two) at lunch, then maybe a low calorie desert on occassion. I am not overweight, in fact I am at my 'ideal' weight, yet I suffer from exhaustion, depression, anxiety, muscle spasms, headaches, you name it. So what is it that is making me feel this way?? It is the 'poison' that I have been ingesting for YEARS because, like you, I was told it was 'safe' by the very people who approved its safety (the FDA) and the people who manufacture it. Do yourself and your loved ones a favor, get this book, read it, and pass it on to someone you love!!

CORRUPTION and LIES at the FDA and sweetener companies!

This well researched and written book is a MUST READ, given how prevalent artificial sweeteners have become. I could not put the book down, given it's alarming 'jaw dropping' facts and implications. The outright LIES, CORRUPTION, and MISREPRESENTATIONS many of these artificial sweetener companies and the FDA have been involved in regarding the side-effects and/or safety of these products is appalling, unethical, and downright scary! Americans should be outraged that the FDA has been 'bought and sold' by big Pharma, and has changed for the worse. Talk about major 'conflict of interests'! You owe it to yourself, and your friends and family, to read this book, get the REAL facts, and judge for yourself if you want to continue imbibing artificial chemical sweeteners like Saccharin, Aspartame (NutraSweet), or Sucralose (Splenda), whose safety is questionable, given the FDA's unethical 'selling out'. THANK YOU Dr. Mercola! I hope this is available in paperback as well soon, so that more people may read it and educate themselves.

If Dr. Mercola's Insights Can't Change My Food Behavior Nothing Will.

'Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, NutraSweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health' by Dr. Joseph Mercola scared the living lights out of me. I have stopped using Splenda, Nutrasweet and all other poisonous, machine-made, chemically altered sugar alternatives ever since I read a galley copy of this timely and educational book. Mercola not only does a masterful job in educating the reader of the real dangers of sugar substitutes in a simplified and easy to follow way, but he also takes us through the process of FDA approval . . . and what's really at stake: money. Particularly interesting outside of the critical health issues presented is the history of various sugar alternatives, and how each was eventually passed for approval as - get this - healthy and safe by the FDA! Has there been a difference in my own 'get up and go' since I've rid myself of the various sugar alternatives? You bet. Thanks Dr. Mercola for writing this book and exposing to the world the fact that sugar alternatives are hazardous to one's health.