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Money talks - and I don't like some of the things it says.
Nicely put Dr. Bill
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Thanks, insel. I have always had a feeling about that. I know sugar is bad enough for you but it must be better than any of the substitutes available. I'm not *even going to go into the sugar/honey debate.
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This is graphic, but it's written from the perspective of a real person. http://www.zug.com/pranks/olestra/
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Dear IP: thanks for that site. I think the bottom line is
that it takes many years of carefult study to detect long
term toxicity. And even though we now know tobacco is
a killer, kids are being sold cigarettes. Good old Joe Camel.
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I was interested in the etymology of aspartame. A-H gives this: "aspart(ic acid) + (phenyl)a(lanine) + m(ethyl) + e(ster)". Aspartic acid gets its name from the lovely sparrow's grass (asparagus); one would hope that phenylalanine got its name from fennel, but no such luck; methyl is from the Greek word methus 'wine' and hule 'wood; stuff'; and finsally, keeping up with the foodstuffs, ester is from German Essigäther from Essig 'vinegar' and Äther 'ether'.
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phenyl- means a derivative of phenol, benzene with one hydroxyl.
Dear Fiberbabe: That Olestra ingester didn't think of one
thing. I wouldn't let kids eat those chips. They could
prevent any fat soluble vitamins being absord.
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Oh, yeah. You can hear me singing the bass line of the first verse of "Sweet and Low" (a setting of a Tennyson poem in four-part harmony) on the -- you guessed it -- Sweet 'n Low  site. Well, you might be able to hear me; it's a little tough on computer speakers. Needless to say, my name was misspelled.
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sounds great, insel!! 
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