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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med
Subject: Re: Sugar vs. nutrasweet
Message-ID: <583@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 14:28:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 14:28:56 1985
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <205@omen.UUCP> caf@.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
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>Consider that it took hundreds of years for the bad effects of cigarettes
>to become the medical folklore, and that there is still no consensus on
>the the extent of the danger of cholesterol IN FOODS, and it is safe to
>assume the bad effects of sugar will be a long time unacknowledged.

	Oh, Good Grief! The harmful effexts of cigarettes were
discovered only decades *after* *testing* *began*. Prior to the
beginning og the century such research simply was not done(or even
possible)! Once started on the subject, research showed the problem
quite rapidly.
	And as for the cholesterol, maybe there is no "concensus"
because the danger isn't quite as bad as you think! Recent research
has shown that there are two types of cholesterol(High density
Lipo-protein and Low density Lipo-protein), and the significant
factor with regard to health is the *ratio* of the two types, *not*
the absolute quantity consumed! So, in order to evaluate the danger
of some food you must check the ratio of cholesterol types. This is
not as easy to do as measuring total cholesterol content.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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