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| Subject: | [Health_and_Healing] Rivers, lake loaded with artificial sweeteners, researchers say |
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| Date: | Thu, 18 Jun 2015 20:42:54 -0400 |
| From: | 'Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum.' bettym19@mindspring.com [Health_and_Healing] <Health_and_Healing@yahoogroups.com> |
| Reply-To: | Health_and_Healing@yahoogroups.com |
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 20:07:38 -0400
Subject: Rivers, lakes loaded with artificial sweeteners, researchers say
From: Leeza Lee <lisa.spaulding@gmail.com>
To: "Dr. Betty Martini,D.Hum." <bettym19@mindspring.com>
Rivers, lakes loaded with artificial sweeteners, researchers say... and now found in our Drinking Water.
It may be lurking in your diet soda, your chewing gum and even in your favorite yogurt. Now scientists have found artificial sweeteners are also coming out of your faucet. Sweeteners can also harm aquatic life and the study suggested sweetener can harm a plant's ability to perform photosynthesis.
Sweeteners are used in thousands of food and beverages sold around the world, according to The Sugar Association. And on World Oceans Day, marked every June 8, scientists are asking us to consider where sweeteners end up after they're ingested.
According to recent research, scientists have found artificial sweeteners in bodies of water around the world, including Canada.
Sugar substitutes -- such as Splenda and Sweet'N Low -- are designed to be eaten, but not absorbed by the body. Because our bodies cannot break them down, sweeteners go straight through humans.
That's how consumers get the sweet taste without the weight gain often associated with sugar-laden foods.
Once the sweetener leaves the body, wastewater treatment plants face the same dilemma: studies have found they can't break down the complex chemical. Most sweeteners, then, flow into oceans, lakes and rivers in practically the same form in which they were consumed.
It's a situation playing out in the water flowing through southwestern Ontario's Grand River, which empties into Lake Erie. Researchers from the University of Waterloo and Environment Canada found the amount of sugar substitute in the water is equivalent to about 81,000 to 190,000 cans of artificially sweetened soda flowing through the 300-kilometre river each day.
The study tested for sucralose, cyclamate, saccharin and acesulfame. It also found three types of sweetener coming out of the faucets in Brantford.
Link: http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/rivers-lakes-loaded-with-artificial-sweeteners-researchers-say-1.2411398
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