Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site steinmetz.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!edison!steinmetz!connolly From: connolly@steinmetz.UUCP (C. Ian Connolly) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med Subject: Re: Re: Re: expecting father & nutrasweet Message-ID: <205@steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 18:25:58 EDT Article-I.D.: steinmet.205 Posted: Thu Jul 25 18:25:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jul-85 05:14:35 EDT References: <771@burl.UUCP> <787@mtuxo.UUCP> <193@omen.UUCP> <15@unc.UUCP> Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 25 Xref: linus net.kids:1430 net.med:1635 Your points about concentrations of sucrose in beets & sugar cane are well taken. > > >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. > I'm pretty sure caffeine is physically addictive. I can't give you a specific reference, but I've seen articles on the subject appear in Science &/or Science News, and I *have* experienced headaches in going through caffeine withdrawal. True enough though, sugar is habit forming. > >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 Probably a good idea, but my taste buds don't want to. -- C. Ian Connolly, WA2IFI - USENET: ...edison!steinmetz!connolly , , ARPANET: connolly@ge-crd An rud a bhionn, bionn.