Olestra
from Maintenance Phase
by Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
Published: Tue Apr 13 2021
Show Notes
In 1996, Proctor & Gamble launched an artificial fat substitute that promised all of the taste but none of the calories. There was just one problem.
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- MarionNestle’s The Selling of Olestra
- JeffreySteingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything
- The1996 Federal Register
- TheTrouble With Fries
- Reductionof the body burden of PCBs and DDE by dietary intervention in a randomized trial
- Reviewof the effects of dilution of dietary energy with olestra on energy intake
- Authors’Financial Relationships With the Food and Beverage Industry and Their Published Positions on the Fat Substitute Olestra
- Postmarketing Surveillance of New Food Ingredients: Results from the Program with the Fat Replacer Olestra
- Effectsof wheat bran and olestra on objective measures of stool and subjective reports of GI symptoms
- Theeffect of ingesting olestra-based foods on feeding behavior and energy balance in humans
- Effecton Body Weight of Replacing Dietary Fat with Olestra for Two or Ten Weeks in Healthy Men and Women
Thanks to Ashley Smith for editing assistance and Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!