Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med Subject: Re: Re: expecting father & nutrasweet Message-ID: <15@unc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 11:51:07 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.15 Posted: Wed Jul 24 11:51:07 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 20:32:45 EDT References: <771@burl.UUCP> <787@mtuxo.UUCP> <193@omen.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 28 Xref: watmath net.kids:1535 net.med:1793 Summary: C. Ian Connolly: >Sucrose, or table sugar, is a perfectly natural substance which is found >in, among other things, sugar cane and beets. Sucrose is harmless _IF_ you limit your intake to the amount normally found in a typical serving of sugar beets or sugar cane. The danger is when the sugar is removed from the cane or beets, and concentrated. This allows people to eat far more sucrose than could ever occur in a natural diet. This is analogous to the alcohol question. People drank slightly fermented fruit juices since prehistoric times. Hard apple cider is probably very good for you. But chemical processes which separate and concentrate the alchohol makes it much easier to drink it in toxic quantities. Likewise for sugar. >Sugar is not physically addicting, either, as far as I know. Neither are coffee and cigarettes physically addictive. Sugar, like caffene and nicotene IS habit forming. And all three are unnecessary. >There is no current need for Nutrasweet, given Saccharine (and cyclamates, >if they brought them back). I consider the latter a far safer substance. Why not simply avoid sweeteners in general? Frank Silbermann