URGENT: NutraSweet/MENTHANOL/TRUTH

[John M. Vogel]

JAMES BET TEE (tee at ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:

: 	Years ago, in class, we were told that there were cases where 
: people who had consumed large amounts of NutraSweet lost a lot of body 
: control; in some cases, the patients swallowed their tongue.  Whether 
: this was a scare tactic, or even possible, I'm not sure, but it was 
: enough to keep me from using NutraSweet over the last 10 years...

Has the earmarks of a scare story to me.  "Swallowing one's tongue" is a 
misnomer; it doesn't literally happen.

John
jvogel at crl.com