Elizabeth Hanna says she was fired by the American Diabetes Association after refusing to approve recipes heaped with the additive made by a major donor

Elizabeth Hanna had a simple job: help people with diabetes figure out what to eat. Anyone with common sense knows this should probably not entail foods that might increase people’s risk of getting diabetes. But that’s not necessarily the thinking at the American Diabetes Association (ADA), the world’s leading diabetes research and patient advocacy group, which also receives millions of dollars from sponsors in the pharmaceutical, food and agricultural industries.

According to a lawsuit Hanna recently filed against the ADA, the organization – which endorses recipes and food plans on its website and on the websites of “partner” food brands – tried to get her to greenlight recipes that she believed flew in the face of the ADA’s mission. These included recipes like a “cucumber and onion salad” made with a third of a cup of Splenda granulated artificial sweetener, “autumnal sheet-pan veggies” with a quarter cup of Splenda monk fruit sweetener and a “cranberry almond spinach salad” with a quarter cup of Splenda monkfruit sweetener.

Guess which company gave more than $1m to the ADA in 2022? Splenda.

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    2 months ago

    a third cup of Splenda

    Sucralose is 600 times sweeter than sugar. Who the fuck is putting more than a spoonful of Splenda in anything?!

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      Many Splenda products are mixed with filler, some are mostly maltodextrin, some are even mixed with regular sugar, so that they can be more easily measured.

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        2 months ago

        Xylitol

        Does this sweetener trigger an insulin response?
        It is too sweet but Splenda is better than sugar. By far

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            2 months ago

            Are you sure its not just that they have a risk of far overeating it and killing themselves with diarrhea

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              It doesn’t take much xylitol to kill a dog or a cat. thankfully cats don’t have a taste for sweet things but it will kill them, it’s poisonous. I won’t allow it in my house and I’m always reading labels to make sure no xylitol is in things because it could fall on the floor and my dog could eat it. She is a medical service dog so thankfully she has been taught not to eat things off the ground. Xylitol in gum is very common and people spit their gum out all over the place.

              https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/xylitol-toxicity-in-dogs

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          All sweeteners influence insulin response and resistance