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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med
Subject: Re: The Perils of Nutrasweet (actually, sugar)
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 10:09:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 10:09:44 1985
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In article <227@bbncc5.UUCP> sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) writes:
>> In article <273@bbnccv.UUCP> sdyer@bbnccv.UUCP (Steve Dyer) writes:
>> >Hoo, boy, more "science".  Like it or not, there is no evidence that
>> >eating "sugar-filled junk" has any deleterious effects other than dental
>> >caries (and in people who have a calorie excess, obesity.)
>> >
>> >Let's move this to net.religion, huh?
>> 
>> ... Just like there's no positive proof concerning the evils and causes of
>> acid rain, lung cancer (cigarettes), mouth cancer (snuff), etc.
>
>This is a silly debating tactic.  It is worth noting that the medical
>profession has firmly supported the findings against tobacco for more
>than 20 years.  The same is NOT true for sugar, and the reason is simple:
>the extravagant claims made against sugar simply don't materialize when
>subjected to scientific scrutiny.

Q.E.D.

Smoking has been around since Sir Walter Raleigh (17th century), and the
medical community hasn't come down hard on it until now.

If it takes as long for the medical community to react to the wholesale
suarar loading of our diet, we still have a few hundred years to wait
for the word to propagate.

If the "defenders" of sugar would take the bother to acknowledge the
references I've given, their debating style wouldn't sound so much like
the Tobacco Institute.
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