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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med
Subject: Re: The Perils of Nutrasweet
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 17:39:25 EDT
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Summary: 

In article <2991@nsc.UUCP> nessus@nsc.UUCP (Kchula-Rrit) writes:
>    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.

Can you cite any medical research to back up this theory?  If there's any
correlation at all, it seems equally likely that the insulin deficiency caused
the craving for "sugar-filled junk foods".  

Can you say "post hoc, ergo propter hoc"???

AWR