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- Subject: Re: should be taken only on the advice of a physician
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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:17:14 GMT
- Reply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
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- References: <gerald.721942839@gerald>
- Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science
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- In article <gerald.721942839@gerald> gerald@torolab4.vnet.ibm.com writes:
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- >Today, I read the fine print on the package:
- >
- > Contains dextrose 66.5%, sodium cyclamate 33.0%, and
- > silicon dioxide 0.5% and should be taken only on the
- > advice of a physician.
- >
- >Why would anyone use this chemical junk as a substitute for sugar? Just
- >because it's "only 2 calories"? I could probably eat my shoes without
- >gaining much weight, but that doesn't mean they would be good for me.
- >
- But your shoes aren't sweet! That's why people eat it. You must
- have gotten it in Canada, because cyclamate is banned in the USA.
- Actually, it is pretty safe. I believe in order to get cancer, the
- estimate was you'd have to drink 600 cans of diet pop per day.
- Someone said that if you had to do that, cancer would be a blessed
- relief. The stuff about the physician is just to get the company
- off the hook, I suppose, since few people will have consulted
- their physician about it, and if they have the company can say,
- "then sue him".
-
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "I have given you an argument; I am not obliged
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