Sweet and sour
Sir: John Rowan Wilson (1 November rites of sugar being supposedly harmfu Iris quite certain that it causes tooth dem and there is much more evidence that harms the health generally than there -that cyclamate might do so. Banning ne foods while permitting more harmful 0 ones is illogical, but it is a step in the righ direction. Public opinion will eventual demand drastic restriction of the sale a advertising of tobacco and sweets.
It is a pity that lobbying against sugar left so much to 'health food' and `natu. cure' merchants, who somewhat discredi themselves by promoting and selling hon and glucose, which are little if any I harmful than sucrose. They also atta the dental nutrient element fluorine vib it is present in water by design but n when it is there by good fortune. I susp that our complacent attitude to su poisoning has driven some people ln these more misguided forms of faddism. do not mean to imply that most so-call health foods do not deserve this name-
R. B. D. Stoch 25 Upper Wimpole Street, London wl
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