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From: sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med
Subject: Re: The Perils of Nutrasweet (actually, sugar)
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 09:31:14 EDT
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>  0.   Long-term consumption can cause diabetes by "burning-out" the pancreas.
>	I had a roommate do this to himself by pigging-out on sugar-filled junk
> 	food for YEARS.  He now has to take insulin every day.

Hoo, boy, more "science".  Like it or not, there is no evidence that
eating "sugar-filled junk" has any deleterious effects other than dental
caries (and in people who have a calorie excess, obesity.)

Let's move this to net.religion, huh?
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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