Doc Wallach & Splenda From Molasses

Doc Wallach & Splenda From Molasses

By Alan Graham
With Alfred Lehmberg
AlienView.net
11-27-9

There is a veritable explosion in the use of the controversial sweetener Sucralose -or Splenda- IT'S EVERYWHERE! IT'S EVERYWHERE, just like Chickenman! This is because it looks so "perfect" on paper, I suspect... no calories, tastes like sugar, and it's cheap.

Wow, what could be the down side? Cue the tense music.

Below I will honestly try to give you both sides of the argument, balanced and fair, so you can decide for yourself, but first I want to point out how one heavy-hitter in the supplement industry, Doc Wallach of Youngevity INC, has made a silly, albeit outrageous, claim with regard to Sucralose. Wallach? He's the famous "Dead Doctors Don't Lie" guy on the radio. Unfortunately? He doesn't practice what he preaches regarding, well... ...lies!

Case in point, a caller to his radio show inquired, straight out, if Sucralose -the sweetener in Splenda, sweetening the Doc's top selling product "Nature's Whey" Protein Powder- was safe. Doc said it was a no-calorie sweetener made from Molasses, so he "loved" Sucralose!

...Molasses!?! Great suffering ZOT, reader! There is but one tenuous connection I can make between Sucralose and Molasses. This is that Molasses is a by-product of Sugar production. See, after they extract all the sugar out of the cane juice, the waste that is left over is the Molasses. That's a connection?

No, it's the sucrose (table-sugar), actually, that is then made into Sucralose - it is not made from Molasses. The ugly truth is that Sucralose is made from SUGAR by using a long, convoluted, and controversial series of CHEMICAL processes centered on the removal of 3 hydroxyl groups out of the normal sugar molecule, and then replacing those hydroxyl groups with 3 chlorine atoms! This new "Chlorinated" and potentially very toxic Sucralose molecule is the problematic result!

Consequently, I'm compelled to agree with the #1 web holistic Doctor, Dr. Mercola, and many others I might add, like my buddy The Leaf Lady - she's only been a Naturopatic Doctor for 50 years!
These folks report that Sucralose is not safe, specifically, because it is a manmade "Chlorinated-Molecule" of the most dubious provenance!

Howsoever, this paper is not just to convince you Sucralose is unsafe, even though I hope I do - see, this paper also addresses how a named scientist like Dr. Wallach could celebrate the safety of this controversial product by lying about where it comes from, and certainly never mentioning that pesky little injection of 3 toxic atoms into a sugar molecule, fundamentally creating Sucralose... yes, reader, Sucralose is "created," remember... a Franken-food!

Doubtlessly, it must be obvious to you, reader, that Doc Wallach prefers you to think it is just some natural, harmless "part" of the "Molasses" you get after Granny stirs up a big pot of "cane-squeezins" on the wood fire! Small hyperbole, perhaps, but Doc Wallach certainly never mentions the Chlorination process that has so many top holistic investigators crying foul!

Do a web search for anything resembling "How Sucralose is made" or "Sucralose processing," without mentioning Chlorine or Molasses in your query... AND then every time we see the word "Molasses" pop up in the 100,000 hits or so, I will give you $1000... but all you have to do is give me ONE Dollar every time you see the words "Chlorine" or "Chlorination"... I will win about $100,000... that's 100,000 hits to your ZERO hits for that silly molasses query.

It seems plain there is NO "molasses connection"-that I can see-but please, show me where I'm wrong care of alan068@centurytel.net .

The 2 mainstream views on Sucralose are:

(1).. "Sucralose is a chlorinated sugar molecule that is not biocompatible with humans, rendering this New "sugar" unrecognizable to us, so it is not metabolized, meaning it passes harmlessly out of your body! Additionally, the FDA has found it to be "safe."

(2).. The opposing view is that, regardless of human compatibility, it is loaded with "organic compounds" so some of the Sucralose is metabolized anyway! Just how much seems to be the big question... lastly, who cares what the professionally bankrupt "spawns of Satan" at the FDA say, anyway!

You also hear..."Sucralose is safe, much like table-salt, which contains a Chlorine atom, but the toxic Chlorine atom stays locked up in the salt & is not metabolized." Hoo, boy!

OK, let me take issue with the preceding seriously silly argument - while describing how this all works. Forgive a little high school chemistry:

"Sugar" is a hydrocarbon comprised of 12 carbon atoms with a hydroxyl group (hydrogen & oxygen) stuck to each one. To create Sucralose, 3 of these hydroxyl groups are chemically replaced with chlorine atoms as I said above. This changes the sugar from a hydro-carbon to a ...chloro-carbon.

See, chlorocarbons are not biocompatible with human physiology, so it would appear that much -if not most- of the stuff goes through w/o being metabolized. The problem is, then, just how much, if any, is actually metabolized or broken apart... to release the VERY aggressive and toxic chlorine atom! The chlorine atom is the "Pit-Bull" of dangerous free-radicals, savaging every cell in your body!
No hyperbole there!

Consider, even the Splenda website itself is careful to say that the sucralose molecule passes harmlessly through you... and "ALMOST NONE" is metabolized -hey wait a minute!- doesn't that word "almost" imply that "some" is metabolized? Just "how much", eh? Well, THAT'S the question, neatly!

Because I have no way of knowing for sure, I am going to go with the conservative figure that Dr. Mercola finds to be closest to reality - which is 15% of the sucralose will be converted... billions of rabid little pit-bulls released to wander... yow! This seems reasonable considering the US FDA's test in 1998 (http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/fr980403.html.) found that 11 to 27 % of the chlorine atoms are released! Yow again!

I say "conservative" because others claim 25% is metabolized - forgetting that there is a Japanese study having that figure up to40%! Yow to the MAX!

The preceding, though bad enough, it remains, by the way: you cannot use the duplicitously bogus sodium-chloride (table-salt) comparison! Here's why:

Salt -or sodium-chloride- is completely INorganic and held together by the powerful "Ionic Bond"! So, for those 2 reasons, the body does not even try to metabolize it!

Chlorocarbons, on the other hand, contain organic compounds like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, which -being held together with the weaker "Covalent Bond" - encourages your liver to go after those self-same ORGANIC compounds! See, your liver WILL try to metabolize the Chlorocarbon molecule! So from "maybe almost none" up to perhaps 40% is metabolized...

See the problem?

...And it would certainly be wrong if Doctor Wallach used the FDA as a credible verification of Sucralose safety. You know, given he is foreverpointing out how the FDA is "in the tank" for "whomever" and "whatever"... a demonstrable fact I regularly point out myself. It remains he still has opportunity to ride in on FDA coat-tails and doesn't have to say a word in fact. The Doc won't sneer at that FDA approval.

Lastly? "Sucralose is safe because chlorine is found naturally in food"...Oh Lord !

OK, Listen-Up. "Chlorine" found naturally in food is GOOD FOR YOU!
Natural ORGANIC Chlorine like that found in food is there to fulfill several necessary functions. It will not harm you. It is; however, nothing like the man-manipulated "Psyco-Killer-Pit-Bull" Chlorine Free-Radical popped loose from Sucralose, reader, so forget that scrofulously bogus argument!

Do a modicum of research and I think you will agree with me!
Besides, why take a chance with Sucralose, at all, when there is Stevia & Xylitol available... of course they are both more expensive. So? It remains reader; these are healthful! Besides, if everyone bought Stevia and rejected Splenda the price would go way down in a hurry.

FYI "WARNING" - More Chlorine horrors. Please stop using Chlorine Bleach for cleaning... the fumes are VERY toxic & will eventually damage your lungs & more! Instead, use 35% Food-Grade H2O2 (Hydrogen Peroxide) that must then be DILUTED. It will kill harmful microbes about as ferociously as bleach but it is NOT toxic...however, it is very dangerous (at full strength)! Because the recommended storage place is in the refrigerator, your kid or drunk husband could swallow some and at 35% potency? It would likely kill them within a few minutes. But hey, chlorine bleach ain't that good for ya', either, by the by! Cold slows the degradation of the H2O2, explaining its appearance in the fridge; however, most come with a fairly good drunk-proof safety cap..

FYI on H2O2 (carefully diluted, reader, and taken internally): it's so "smart" that it will kill harmful microbes, of course, but it will not kill beneficial ones naturally found in your gut. This carefully diluted H2O2 is Probiotic (for life)...so it will benefit your good bugs... but is death onharmful living things... like the harmful anaerobic bacteria in your gut that can't tolerate an explosion of oxygen from some few drops of H2O2 in the appropriate amount of water. You CANNOT use regular Hydrogen Peroxide folks - it must be "Food-Grade." Regardless, for all the healthful benefits of this therapy, H2O2 -the reader is sternly cautioned- is a caustic chemical not to be trifled with or regarded lightly! Be warned!
Know what you're doing!

Speaking of caustic chemicals, the most DANGEROUS TOXIC chemical apparatus in your home is your dishwasher, believe it or not, if you use typical dishwasher detergent. The steam that pours out after you open the door sends toxic chlorine vapor all through the house.
There are several Chlorine-free products on the web... like "Seventh Generation" - (I don't own stock...)

Also if you could learn to appreciate just how toxic chlorine is, you might even go "full-tilt-boogie" and convert your swimming pool to an H2O2 system! You do absorb Chlorine right through your skin so shower filters for Chlorine are becoming a hot item.

If you feel you must use bleach... please buy a mask like a spray-painter uses BUT it has to have a filter much more restrictive than an auto spray-painter... it must specifically say that it blocks chlorine. I'm serious!

Heading into the barn, for all you Youngevity (tm) associates upset with me right now... if you have a rational rebuttal, write... please! I wouldbe improved! It remains, though, Doc seems a little dirty.

I have to make mention, if you would like to read about a couple of other lies reference Doc Wallach products... lies much more egregious than this "little Molasses fib," then read the following paper: http://www.alienview.net/ALLT1.html#whey

Today? I only deconstructed his Sucralose fib because of space and the subject of Splenda has a critical relevancy... but his 2 other lies (link above) are the real insults to credulity... In fact, one is so fulsomely blatant that it ranks right up there with the guy urinating on your leg while remarking on the steady rain. I digress...

If I'm wrong, please demonstrate it to me; again, I would be better informed, remember. It remains, too, that I want to be a Wallach-phile... really. His philosophy regarding supplements & nutrition seems not only correct but, in fact, ahead of the pack, in the aggregate, but his daunting infidelities make it difficult to love him. Ahh...you know, who can love... ...a liar... of any stripe?

Consider too at last: "What would Jesus do?" See, Doc Wallach is always interjecting God into his program... so if I'm right about the subterfuge above -which I am- then doesn't that, sort of, well... diminish all Christians... just a little bit?

Are you "distributors" -who consider yourselves Christian- going to confront your boss and insist he clean up his act, or, are you gonna cave and bow to Mammon, that god of greed?

C'mon! Insist on truth. Gratify some and astonish the rest.

Questions?

Alan Graham
alan068@centurytel.net

http://www.alienview.net/ALLTCON.html

That's enough. Well be.