The Potato Chip That Destroyed The Bowels Of America

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The disappointed researchers were surprised to pull open the lab door just moments later to find the entire Procter & Gamble board wearing gold suits and dollar-sign glasses, performing an elaborately choreographed rendition of Barrett Strong's "Money." Because if the human body couldn't absorb it, then humans could theoretically eat a whole bunch of fatty foods without gaining weight. And that's the goddamn American dream baby.

Olestra was also used in pill form, offered by diet companies

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I've done that. Not great with hummus.

Interestingly my fat aunt who eats cake all day didn't have any issues and didn't lose any weight on it. My only assumption is she is so greedy she has learnt how to eat the fat blockers too.