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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. |