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!linus!decvax!cca!bbnccv!bbncc5!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncc5.UUCP (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.med Subject: Re: The Perils of Nutrasweet (actually, sugar) Message-ID: <232@bbncc5.UUCP> Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 10:14:56 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncc5.232 Posted: Tue Jul 23 10:14:56 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 00:30:43 EDT References: <227@bbncc5.UUCP> <130@hscfvax.UUCP> Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, MA Lines: 15 > It may be that some people have a strong sensitivity to > highly refined carbohydrates (certainly many parents have observed > this with their children of various ages) and that this is a personal > issue not subject to empirical verification in control groups. In any > case, those people who choose to avoid eating refined sugars should > respect others who have no such predilection. And vice versa. Absolutely in agreement. A statement like "I felt bad when I ate lots of sugar" is outside of the realm of scientific verification. On the other hand, saying "sugar is poison, just look at how I felt" or some variant of this certainly can be tested. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbnccv.ARPA