Product Description
Most people believe that sucralose (Splenda) is a perfectly safe artificial sweetener. Big business and the FDA have fostered that dangerous misconception. The truth is Splenda is by no means safe; and the same is true for many of the other artificial sweeteners being marketed today. Dr. Joseph Mercola---supported by extensive studies and research---exposes the fact that Splenda actually contributes to a host of serious diseases. Sweet Deception will lay out how the FDA really works for big food companies and should not be trusted when it comes to your health.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 29 reviews)

Sweet Deception... Book deception

Nothing new... we know that they are not the best option, sugar may be, but evething in the market has this kind of artificial sugar... so what can we do?.... I also have to said that I prefer my coffe with splenda because it is more sweet than sugar .... Dr. Mercola did't make me change.
October 22, 2008

Read it and judge for yourself

This book doesn't get five stars for its readability, but for it's information. I had planned to read it straight through, but got bored in chapter two (despite the very good information presented - there's just a lot of it) and set the book aside for months. I recently picked it back up and flipped to a later chapter, determined to read at least the parts that most interested me, but by the time I'd flipped between all the chapters that captured my interest, I realized I'd read the whole book after all.

Every person should have the information on sweeteners presented here, and every U.S. citizen needs to know this information on the FDA. If even only 5% of what's presented here is true (and I suspect there's a lot more truth here than that), it's still a worthwhile read. I've long suspected that the FDA was out to protect business over the consumer, and there is so much evidence here that confirms my suspicions, it disgusts me. I found the interview with Dr. David Graham, the FDA whistle-blower, especially interesting.

There's some scary stuff presented here. Read it and judge its value for yourself. Learn about the chemicals we use to sweeten our foods and about the desperate need for reform in the FDA, or bury your head in the sand and pretend everything is okie-dokie. Personally, I want to know as much as possible about the things I ingest, and I'm very glad I read this book and now have more knowledge in these matters.
September 27, 2008

So, why doesn't the ambulance driver recognize me yet?

And so, I kept waking up in the back of an ambulance. The multiple tests I was given are going a long way toward supporting the hospital mortgage payment, but they have, so far at least, proven inconclusive. Then, one of my employees suggested the connection between certain health conditions and aspertame. I must admit I was practically addicted to diet colas, fearing the high fructose corn syrup stuff to be dangerous and fattening. So, after reading a few articles on the internet, I quit aspertame entirely, or at least for the most part, since it is probably stuck in stuff I have not scented out yet. Then, I turned to Amazon for additional nonfiction information and came up with "Sweet Deception" by Dr. Joseph Mercola. Although an index would have been nice, I found the book very interesting. Chapter 2 was particularily frightening. Read it yourself. But, it was like old home week featuring the kind of persons who would have no problem sacrificing thousands of U.S. soldiers to steal a foreign country's oil. Then, the politics of the FDA was quite disturbing...how it was taken down by America's most beloved president and fairly much run by the industries we are supposed to be protected from. Outch. Other little asides to factory farming, box store food distribution and the wastage of chemical byproducts into our environment are no fun either. Well, you can have a nice day and hope the offending industries make plenty of moola. This book deserves a serious read by anyone interested in his health. But, I am only giving it four stars because, in the long run, it will make absolutely no change in the current situation.
September 10, 2008

Gets into Great Detail

Wonderful resource. This books gets into the facts. Great to use if you are trying to convince a stubborn person.
September 02, 2008

WELL DOCUMENTED BOOK

Well documented book; freightening facts which in part read like an intrigue novel. DO NOT TRUST THE FDA!
July 29, 2008

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