michael94
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In animals examined for the study, Sucralose (Splenda) reduced the amount of good bacteria in the intestines by 50 percent, increased the pH level in the intestines, contributed to increases in body weight and affected P-glycoprotein (P-gp) levels in such a way that crucial health-related drugs could be rejected.
The P-gp effect could result in medications used in chemotherapy, AIDS treatment, and treatments for heart conditions being shunted back into the intestines, rather than being absorbed by the body.
courtesy of Dr. Mercola ( he is bashing "fake sweeteners" in this article )
Those sound like good things to me...besides maybe the weight gain but that might be an artifact of not adjusting the rest of the diet/lifestyle to different needs when doing the experiment like these idiots always do and they probably wouldnt even be able to if they were conscious of this concept... There lies the problem in reading animal studies without a heavy dose of malice.
I tend to trust artificial things more than "pure unadulterated nature", its time to take off the rose colored glasses when it comes to Nature...
Anyway, maybe Splenda could be useful every now and then.