Sugar Alcohols --- Re-Post....

Hey Dr. Randy! Good to see you home and back up and going! Thanks for the info! I had taken the Manufactures info at face value because it seemed that all of the "Anti-Splenda" info was traceable to one source- The Sucralose Toxicity Info Center, which seems to be little more than a front/mouthpiece for Dr. Joseph Mercola and his book- Dr. Joseph Mercola’s, Sweet Deception. I had discounted it for a few reasons. Clicking on his 2007 version of his ‘sales page’ - http://www.mercola.com/forms/total_health_book.htm Takes one directly to an alert from the Better Business Bureau. And, his "studies" are riddled with claims such as- "A compound chemically related to sucrose, 6-chloro-deoxyglucose, is known to have …" followed by lists of astounding horrors of that compound. Just going off of intro-Chem classes back in college, The difference between a compound, and "A compound chemically related to…"? reminds me of the Mark Twain quote- "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is like the difference between the lightening and the lightening-bug."

Good to have other source of info…. Mercola’s organization claims as much as 40% is absorbed. How does that happen? Particularly in light of other "studies" Mercola sites as 11% absorbed? It seems so different a characterization as to be inaccurate? I always assumed The Sucralose Toxicity Info Center had SO Overstated their case as to be fraudulent. (my sister is a "Total Organic" all chemicals are EVIL Vegan…thus the interest in responding with some info. God knows she’s sent me reams of - "ingesting _*insert nearly anything here *______is Poison!")