Aspartame And Olestra: Will We Buy The Bull?
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The eighties were the years of muscle building and nouvelle cuisine and we
like to call it the decade of the fitness obsession. We, the people of the
nineties, have gotten so discouraged with all of our Ab Trainers and Buns
of Steel that we have reverted to what seems to be an easy way to stay
tr ....
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.... ingest. It is why I think that food substitutes come to
them somehow like a miracle. Until now, diabetics, for example, were faced
with two choices: eat the fake foods that taste nothing like the real thing,
or pass. Sure, a man with a heart disease will not be able to eat a steak,
but maybe he will be allowed to eat the French fries to go with it if they
are prepared with Olean (Olestra). Olean is a fat derivative that
chemically resembles real fat, with the exception that is much bigger, ....
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