"For the study, researchers conducted a series of in vitro experiments exposing
human blood cells to sucralose-6-acetate and monitoring for markers of genotoxicity."
Huh... I thought red blood cells had no nucleus, hence no DNA... I wonder which of the many white blood cells it altered
Fwiiw.. DNA is always getting screwed up... take a high altitude plane ride and you'll damage DNA... lucky there are nuclear proteins that help correct the errors. That's not to say genotoxic chemicals are good, only that there are recovery mechanisms
Anyone going to give up Splenda based on this report?
For me, it's hard to get perspective.. if you look for things that are genotoxic, lots of stuff comes up, e.g., meat
To determine the effects of different diets on the genotoxicity of human faecal water, a diet rich in fat, meat and sugar but poor in vegetables and free of wholemeal products (diet 1) was consumed by seven healthy volunteers over a period of 12 days. One week after the end of this period, the...
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which concludes "The results indicate that diets high in fat and meat but low in dietary fibre increase the genotoxicity of faecal water to colonic cells and may contribute to an enhanced risk of colorectal cancer."
Translation.. eat a lot of meat and your poop is genotoxic
Here's another that I knew about (heterocyclic amines and nitrosamines)
Gene-environment interactions include exposure to genotoxic compounds from our diet and it is no doubt, that humans are regularly exposed to e.g. food toxicants, not least from cooked foods. This paper reviews briefly four classes of cooked food toxicants, e.g. acrylamide, heterocyclic amines...
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"cooking conditions and dietary habits can contribute to human cancer risk through the ingestion of genotoxic compounds from heat-processed foods"
Translation... grill your food and create a genotoxin. You can avoid the problem by boiling instead of grilling meats... but are the carnivores among us going to boil?
My take is splenda is just not necessary, and, with a little effort, you can learn to like bitter coffe.. but beware "Coffee has been shown unequivocally to be genotoxic in vitro"
Coffee has been shown unequivocally to be genotoxic in vitro, but no genotoxicity has been seen in vivo testing. Since the in vitro genotoxicity appears to be dependent on hydrogen peroxide, it is important to know whether hydrogen peroxide is present in prepared coffee and whether it is being...
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But.. you're in luck but "no genotoxicity has been seen in vivo testing. "
Which goes to show a shortcoming in the splenda study... the results were in vitro, not in vivo