Short Stuff: Olestra

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In the 90s a fat free miracle food came out that promised we could eat all we wanted and not gain weight. But there was a caveat: it could also make your bowels unpleasantly loose.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:34.5	Hey and welcome to the short stuff.
0:36.0	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry.
0:39.1	So let's get started.
0:40.0	Everybody be quiet and listen.
0:42.1	Get ready to feel like you're going to poop your pants.
0:45.0	Because we're going to talk about O'Lestra.
0:47.0	Which would make you poop your pants.
0:49.3	Yeah, so this one starts back in the 50s.
0:52.3	We can't talk about O'Lestra without mentioning the seven country study which was very famous
0:56.9	in the 50s for fooling science and the world into the notion that fats are terrible.
1:05.8	They will kill you.
1:07.3	Don't eat them.
1:08.6	So all foods started saying great.
1:11.2	We're going to put out no fat stuff and start pumping in high fructose corn syrup into
1:16.5	our things to create flavor.
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