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From: doon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Harry W. Reed)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med
Subject: Re: Re: Re: The Perils of Nutrasweet
Message-ID: <2206@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 18:30:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 18:30:06 1985
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Summary: 

In article <208@steinmetz.UUCP> connolly@steinmetz.UUCP (C. Ian Connolly) writes:
>> > a significant portion of the population (>10%?) which cannot.  These are
>
>> it is caused by a deficiency of phenylalanine hydroxylase.  The condition
>> occurs in 7:100,000 births in the general population of the USA, with
>
>> 7/100000 is many times lower than >10%? (unless this is a kind of
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>What can I say?  I got the figure out of Science...
>I might be confusing Phenylketonuria with a more general condition
>involving phenylalanine.  I am positive that more than .007% of the
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>people I know are affected by Nutrasweet-sweetened soft drinks,


What makes you so sure ?????