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From: rodean@hpfcla.UUCP (rodean)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 13:22:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 24 13:22:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpfclo!rodean    Jul 24 09:22:00 1985

> I just read the Atlantic Monthly article on aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal)
> last night.  (August 1985 issue, pp 14-20.)

>	                                             In his book
>	'Sweet and Dangerous', which was published in 1972, Yudkin
>	talks about sugar as if it were the universal usurper of
>	humankind's vital sap -- a poison.

>	At a meeting of the International Dairy Federation in
>	1973 he boasted that his research on sugar would soon
>	"free butterfat from guilt."

I'm not going to jump on either bandwagon here, but it seems to me that
medical research that is 12-13 years old might be rather dated and not
really useful. Anyone care to comment on that?

Bruce Rodean
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