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From: todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones)
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Subject: Re: Sugar vs. nutrasweet
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 16:27:45 EDT
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> Acid rain, cigarette smoke, lead, and nuclear radiation have also been
> with us much longer than Nutrasweet.  If you believe our present levels
> of sugar consumption a lesser risk merely because they have been around 
> a few decades longer than Nutrasweet, then you must, by the same logic,
> believe the others are OK as well.
> 
> By the way, I would not be surprised in the least if there has been less
> scientific research/testing on the dangers of sugar than of Nutrasweet.
> -- 
>   Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX 

No, no, no. I won't contend that massive amounts of scientific
research and testing have been performed on sugar and its effects.
I didn't contend that a substances longevity guarantees its safeness.

What I meant was: Only subtle (although potentially dangerous)
side-effects of sugar consumption could evade the notice of the
millions (billions?) of sugar users after all these years. Once
Roentgen and Mme. Curie and a few of their peers keeled over
it became pretty clear that nuclear radiation was a force not
to be messed with. Ask any scientist-laboratory testing is
never sufficient for making concrete assertions. Field testing
(in this case, generations of sugar consumers not displaying
markedly different effects from non-sugar consumers) must
complement laboratory testing for optimum reliability.


We know more (not everything, just more) about the long-term
and short term effects of sugar on human health and behavior 
than we do of Nutrasweet.

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