Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gargoyle.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!gargoyle!ed From: ed@gargoyle.UUCP (Ed Friedman) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: The Perils of Nutrasweet (actually, sugar) Message-ID: <109@gargoyle.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 15:12:49 EDT Article-I.D.: gargoyle.109 Posted: Wed Aug 7 15:12:49 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 20:50:08 EDT Reply-To: ed@gargoyle.UUCP (Ed Friedman) Organization: U. Chicago, Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 5 References: Those of you concerned with the perils of Nutrasweet might want to read The Toxic Effects of Glutamate and Related Compounds in the Retina and the Brain, by John W. Olney (Retina 2: 341, 1982). In the article the author claims that oral administration of Asm to young mice induced hypothalamic lesions.