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According to the reading passage, Sucralose can cause health issues. However, the lecturer claims that the artificial sweetener is not hazardous to health conditions. To support her idea, the lecturer provided the following opinions. First, the lecturer argued that it is highly unlikely to become an obesity because of sucralose. A level of insulin can be increased after ingestion of sucralose but the lecturer pointed that this does not mean something. She also pointed out other natural vegetables that can increase the level of insulin such as rice and potato also increase. But no one blames them as a cause of obesity. Furthermore, she said the tendency of drinking diet soda misleads the conclusion that diet soda is a cause of overweight. However, even though overweighted population prefer to drink diet soda, overweight is just their physical condition, not a result. This clearly counters the argument of the reading passage that sucralose. In addition, she indicated a problem of the finding that the reading passage demonstrated, which is the unrealistic setting of the research. She points that the experiment did not involve real life ingredients so that the conclusion cannot be an evidence to support the reading passage’s argument. The chemicals that the reading passage mentioned are not used in a real life cooking. The temperature as well: it is way too higher than normal cooking temperature. This argument weakens the robustness of the reading passage’s argument in a significant way. For the last, the lecturer thought those anecdotal stories from people are not reliable. Furthermore, there was an experiment which tested the relationship between ingestions of sucralose and allergic reactions. The result demonstrated that sucralose is safe for human. In other words, sucralose is not significantly harmful than any other ingredients to use. This refutes the reading passage’s claim that sucralose causes strong allergic reactions. To conclude, the reading passage’s opinion that sucralose can be hazardous to human is not a robust argument. All points that the reading passage demonstrated is questioned by the lecturer’s refutations.
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