Sweeteners Issues and Uncertainties (1975) / Chapter Skim
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Summaries by the Co-chairmen
Summaries by the Co-chairmen
Pages 233-240
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And against this great change in our habits, which is being put upon us, I think a response might be that there be labeling as to total sugar content accompanied by some informational or educational program to allow the public to decide what kind of food they would like to use. There was a mention made of the revolution in nutrition and a change in emphasis from minimum dietary essentials as a quantitative matter to the qualitative nature of food: the quality, the taste, the texture, 233
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The remarkably good kind of epidemiological evidence available for saccharin, we were told, is impossible to find for sugars as influencing Western diets, because so many other influences are in the Western diet and in the Western environment. So we were told that perhaps we will never know decisively what is optimum and what is hazardous regarding sugar intake unless there is found a causal effect.
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Ethological studies of animal behavior are replete with examples of man-made "super" releasing stimuli or signs. An artificial egg four times normal size is preferred by the ringed plover to its own natural egg when both are presented.
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Test trials at l00 to 200 times estimated level of normal consumption were reported without deleterious effect, yet one scientist participant objected that such tests did not take into account other amino acids being ingested at the same time with possible effects on brain function. Dosage level appeared to be crucial here and would undoubtedly feature in forthcoming hearings on this material.
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Here the consensus was negative. But also into the balance must be placed the cost of answering with greater precision some of the questions raised in the Academy report as against devoting limited resources to other recognized and more demanding health problems.
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