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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Sugar - harmless, no - deadly, yes
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 16:03:54 EDT
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In article <1053@cbdkc1.UUCP> tjs@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Tom Stanions) writes:
> Look at the number of diabetics in the world today?  Anybody have a
>better explanation for this rise other than the consumption of refined sugar,
>caffeine and chocolate (the later having very similar effects)?

Simply because they are now being kept alive by modern medical
techniques, when in previous generations they would have died off due to
their illnesses or by succumbing to other diseases or conditions to which
their resistance had been weakened.

Same reason why *anything* is the current "leading cause of death" --
the stuff that is worse has been eliminated/prevented/staved off, and now
this comes to the fore. When this is fixed, something else will move to
the top of the list. This will only stop when people live forever...

Will