Gina Jackson Personal Fitness

I had to get this out as I sit eating lunch following my weekly pilates session.  I am reading The New Yorker (May 22nd issue) and found the following facts simply wild!!

If this doesn’t help you cut the white stuff out of your diet and lifestyle, nothing will!

Burkhard Bilger writes, in ‘The Search for Sweet,’ that Splenda, Equal, and Sweet’NLow were all created from  chemical laboratory  mistakes that 200M Americans consume because of our craving for sweet things.

Splenda was born as a result of a failed insecticide (1975), Saccharin was found over dinner in 1879, by a chemist who was working with coal-tar derivatives and ‘forgot’ to wash his hands properly.  Used in Sweet’NLow and listed as a possible carcinogen until 2000, and is still banned as a food additive in Canada. Aspartame, used in Equal, was found in 1965, by a chemist who was testing new drugs for gastric ulcers and ‘licked his fingers’ before picking up a piece of paper.  Sucralose, declared safe by the FDA in 1998, but taste researchers the author talked to won’t eat it!  They stated, ”I look at the structure and I have an irrational fear of it.”  Sucralose is the failed insecticide Americans know as Splenda!

Whether the real stuff, which ”makes you fat, puts diabetics into a coma, and makes children run screaming in circles,” or the fake stuff that made cancer-causing chemical lab mistakes into corporate millions, I’d leave it alone and eat a few berries.