▶ Your Answer :
The lecturer contends that sucralose is not
as hazard as it is said in the reading passage. Although the reading passage
claims that sucralose causes serious problems regarding people’s health, the
lecturer strongly asserts that the substance is unlikely to create those
issues.
First, the lecturer mentions that diabetes should
not be attributed to consuming sucralose. A lot of other ingredients such as
rice and potatoes also increase insulin in the body, but they are not blamed to
the cause of diabetes. Moreover, the experiment showing that people who drink
diet soda are prone to have diabetes is not reliable, because those people are
commonly overweight and this physical condition leads them to develop diabetes.
This refutes the reading passage’s claim that people who consume sucralose tend
to develop diabetes.
Secondly, the lecturer asserts that
sucralose does not emit toxic compounds if it is dealt with in the real life. The
environment of the experiment related to the correlation between the toxic
substances emitted from sucralose and cancer is not similar with that of the
real life. Rather, the temperature in which the researchers cook sucralose was
higher than the heat we normally cook. This counters the reading passage’s
claim that when sucralose is heated, it makes toxic chemicals that cause the
serious health problems such as cancer.
Lastly, the lecturer says that the effect
of sucralose in terms of allergic reactions is not plausible. The anecdotal
witnesses that some people experienced allergic symptoms are not credible,
because it is more likely that they are just affected by some people taking about
allergic reactions in the media. No severe allergic symptoms are resulted from
sucralose that any other type of food. This cast doubts on the reading passage’s
claim that the sucralose is a substance that is not properly processed by human’s
body and that’s why it creates some allergic reactions among some people. |