▶ Your Answer : In this set of issues, both the reading passage and the speaker discuss negative impacts of sucralose on people’s health. To be specific, according to the reading passage, sucralose is a harmful chemical for people because it increases the risk of diabetes and intense allergic reactions. Moreover, it makes hazardous substances when cooked. However, the speaker counters these explanations from the reading passage for the following reasons. To begin with, the lecturer argues that it is highly illogical that people are likely to develop diabetes since they consume sucralose largely. This is because there are many other substances which make similar effects with the chemical, and rice is such an example that increases the insulin level. In addition, the result of the study referred in the reading passage cannot also support the risk of the chemical. The reason is that many people in the test were overweight, and the primary reason of diabetes is obesity. These arguments cast doubt on the reading passage’s insistence that people who intake sucralose have higher probability to get diabetes. On top of that, the speaker asserts that sucralose does not make harmful substances when it is cooked. Specifically, the test mentioned in the reading passage did not include real life ingredients, and therefore, the harmful chemicals which combine with sucralose are not present in food we eat normally. Furthermore, sucralose was exposed to extremely high temperature in the test than normal level. These assertions contradicts the reading passage’s explanation that sucralose is perilous for people because people could be exposed to harmful substances which is made when cooked. Finally, the professor claims that there is no evidence that sucralose makes allergic reactions for people. This is because lots of tests show that consumption of the chemical is safe for people, and the substance does not make more severe allergic symptoms than other types of food. Moreover, many scientists say that the symptoms that some people report are anecdotal, so they are unreliable. These claims refute the reading passage’s opinion that sucralose enables people to experience intense allergic reactions. |