There are only 12 milligrams of sucralose in a packet of Splenda. So the toxic levels found in mice had the same concentration as an 8 oz. cup of coffee with 16 packets of Splenda.
Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria
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#12I'm not a mouse...
Yes, but because you take two decades to reach reproductive maturity, and tend to sue if subjected to a lifetime of confinement in a lab being experimented on, we start with the mouse studies.
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#13The title is slightly misleading. The study is only about neotame, and not artificial sweeteners in general. EDIT: Nevermind, only one article was linked. Thank you for linking the rest below.
Huh? The second paragraph says "six common artificial sweeteners", and the third says: > Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore tested the toxicity of aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame, and acesulfame potassium-k. They observed that when exposed to only 1 milligram per milliliter of the artificial sweeteners, the bacteria foun…
It links to two studies.
Neotame (2018-02-09) @ https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/2/367
Sweeteners (2018-09-25) @ https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/10/2454
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#14The title is slightly misleading. The study is only about neotame, and not artificial sweeteners in general. EDIT: Nevermind, only one article was linked. Thank you for linking the rest below.
The link in the article is to the wrong research, it seems.
The correct research is this: https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/10/2454
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#15The article is a bit confusing in that they refer to two separate studies. Both of the studies are open access
(Neotame) https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/2/367 (6 sweeteners) https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/10/2454
Also there seems to be a typo in the article:
> ...the bacteria found in the digestive system became toxic.
I don't think they mean the bacteria themselves became toxic.
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#16There are only 12 milligrams of sucralose in a packet of Splenda. So the toxic levels found in mice had the same concentration as an 8 oz. cup of coffee with 16 packets of Splenda.
Exactly. Most of that white powder in a sugar packet is dextrose filler.
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#17There are only 12 milligrams of sucralose in a packet of Splenda. So the toxic levels found in mice had the same concentration as an 8 oz. cup of coffee with 16 packets of Splenda.
Exactly. Most of that white powder in a sugar packet is dextrose filler.
How is dextrose in a sugar packet filler? That makes no sense to me. Maybe it's just a confusion of terms.
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#19There are only 12 milligrams of sucralose in a packet of Splenda. So the toxic levels found in mice had the same concentration as an 8 oz. cup of coffee with 16 packets of Splenda.
Exactly. Most of that white powder in a sugar packet is dextrose filler.
Someone made a chemistry joke that went over your head. Dextrose is sugar. Common in corn syrup, to be exact.
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#20Currently a perfect diabetes, obesitas (and also cancer & alzheimer's) storm is brewing. My gut instinct (pun intended) tells me it mainly has dietary causes which are not limited to increased portions alone.
Processed foods + sedentary lifestyles = perfect storm. Pretty obvious "something" happened in the 70s and we've been on this ride ever since: https://nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/obesity.gi...
Realizing one 2 tablespoon serving of peanut butter was half a full meal was a wakeup call. It turns out 1/4 or less of a "serving" of most processed things works the same taste-wise and doesn't lead to insatiable hunger later.