Olestra
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
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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- Marion Nestle’s The Selling of Olestra
- Jeffrey Steingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything
- The 1996 Federal Register
- The Trouble With Fries
- Reduction of the body burden of PCBs and DDE by dietary intervention in a randomized trial
- Review of 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
- Effects of wheat bran and olestra on objective measures of stool and subjective reports of GI symptoms
- The effect of ingesting olestra-based foods on feeding behavior and energy balance in humans
- Effect on Body Weight of Replacing Dietary Fat with Olestra for Two or Ten Weeks in Healthy Men and Women
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:11.7 | Hi everybody and welcome to Maintenance Faze, the podcast that keeps saying it doesn't want to talk about poop. |
| 0:17.1 | Oh my god. |
| 0:17.6 | But it's really like conceptually painted itself into a quark. |
| 0:21.0 | Ha ha ha ha. |
| 0:22.3 | I have spent the last three weeks livid about doing this episode. |
| 0:27.6 | Even though I don't know who I'm angry at. |
| 0:30.3 | I'm just angry. |
| 0:31.3 | When you picked it, I was very surprised. |
| 0:33.8 | I was like, the one that's famously poopy. |
| 0:37.0 | The poopy-sode. |
| 0:38.1 | Yes. |
| 0:38.6 | Ha ha ha. |
| 0:39.6 | Ha ha ha. |
| 0:40.6 | I'm Aubrey Gordon and I'm here with my co-host. |
| 0:43.4 | Michael Hobbs. |
| 0:44.2 | You can find us on Patreon at patreon.com slash maintenance phase. |
| 0:48.4 | We also have t-shirts and masks and phone cases and tote bags and all kinds of stuff on T public. |
| 0:55.8 | Both of those are linked for your convenience at maintenance phase.com. |
| 0:59.5 | You know what we don't have, Aubrey? |
| 1:01.8 | Fat free potato chips. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah. |
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