[goldstategop]

I've tried a few olestra based snacks and can't say they troubled my nether regions. Then again I never looked at the labels.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Friday, the FDA said it was convinced by a study that tracked how 3,000 people felt after eating chips during a six-week period. Half ate chips with olestra, and half ate chips they thought contained olestra but really didn't, said FDA food additive chief George Pauli.

The olestra eaters had only slightly more frequent bowel movements than the people who ate full-fat chips, he said.

I bet the test subjects didn't wolf down a large bag at one sitting, either.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I remember when it first came out, the rumor was it could cause someone to lose control of their bowels involuntarily. That was the main thing that kept me from trying the chips. Now I do so because I generally avoid any diet food.

[Jay D. Dyson]

I've been eating the "Wow" chips since 1998 and I've never had one problem related to Olestra.

I lump the anti-Olestra types in with the same group that runs around making "Aspartame KILLS!!!!!!" web sites.

-Jay

[HiTech RedNeck]

Because olestra is undigested, it inhibits absorption of a few fat-clinging vitamins. FDA requires manufacturers to add vitamins A, D, E and K to products made with olestra to counter that effect. That requirement will continue, but packages no longer will have to disclose why the vitamins are being added.

This sure sounds like a misleading move. The net effect of these "extra vitamins" on the vitamin intake of the consumer would be zero. Someone planning a diet which includes daily vitamin quotas needs to know this.

[Nick Danger]

tastes like fat, but passes through the body undigested

I understand this principle. The same thing happens to me with Hillary's speeches. She looks fat, but everything she says goes in one ear and out the other. In spite of which, her words give me a headache. And sometimes, they even make me hurl.

[SuzanneWeeks]

Hmmm.

I tried the "wow" chips the day that they came out. One "big grab" bag shared equally with a co-worker.

We then shared the bathroom for the rest of the afternoon.

No more olestra for me. Ever.

[AmericaUnited]

Because olestra is undigested, it inhibits absorption of a few fat-clinging vitamins. FDA requires manufacturers to add vitamins A, D, E and K to products made with olestra to counter that effect.

Adding these vitamins is worthless because they still get faked out by the phony fat molecules of olestra and don't get delivered to each cell.

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE FROM THIS MAD-SCIENTIST PLASTIC FOOD!!!