Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bbncc5.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!cca!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Sugar - harmless, no - deadly, yes Message-ID: <226@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 22:46:56 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncc5.226 Posted: Sun Jul 21 22:46:56 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 04:40:32 EDT References: <1053@cbdkc1.UUCP> <835@turtlevax.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 > 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." -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbnccv.ARPA