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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med
Subject: Re: The Perils of Nutrasweet (actually, sugar)
Message-ID: <198@omen.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 14:38:24 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 20 14:38:24 1985
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Summary: 

In article <273@bbnccv.UUCP> sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer) writes:
>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?

... Just like there's no positive proof concerning the evils and causes of
acid rain, lung cancer (cigarettes), mouth cancer (snuff), etc.

A good starting text on the subject is the book "Sweet and Dangerous" by
Dr John Yudkin, Professor of Physiology at Queen Elizabeth College of London
University, etc.  A quote therefrom:
	"If only a fraction of what is already known about the effects of
	sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used
	as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned."

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