Olestra

Maintenance Phase

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

History, Science, Health, Health & Fitness, Wellness, Education

4.8 • 16.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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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. Support us: Subscribe on PatreonDonate on PayPalGet Maintenance Phase shirts, stickers and moreLinks! Marion Nestle’s The Selling of OlestraJeffrey Steingarten's The Man Who Ate EverythingThe 1996 Federal RegisterThe Trouble With FriesReduction of the body burden of PCBs and DDE by dietary intervention in a randomized trial...

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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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