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From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Sugar - harmless, no - deadly, yes
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Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 22:46:56 EDT
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> Sugar has also been shown to cause temporary insanity.  Wintess the
> "Twinkie Case", that of Dan White, a Coke and Twinkie addict, who shot
> the mayor and a supervisor of the City of San Francisco, while under
> the influence of junk food.  The courts determined that he was rendered
> temporarily insane by the ingestion of the aforementioned "junk foods",
> and was therefore not responsible for his actions.  He has been
> acquitted, and is rumored to be living in San Diego.

Um, just because a jury is foolish enough to buy a cockamamie ploy
by a lawyer, we needn't consider it scientific evidence.  By the way,
White was "paroled" not "acquitted."
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/Steve Dyer
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