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[MentalNoiz]

So I purchase some "Light Tostinos" tortilla chips thinking the less calories and fat the better . Hey the bag says 1/3 fewer calories, great I thought ! I had heard about Olean(Olestra) before but never tried any brand with it in them .

Since having a moderate amount of them chips last night (I'd guess maybe 10-15 chips), I've had to make a run for the toilet after 20 or so minutes after eating a meal ; The stuff just seems to stay in yer colon forever . The tripe to the toilet started at 6:30AM this morning when I was awoken by severe bowl pains .

Doing a Google, I found this site : http://www.cspinet.org/olestra/

I'm not alone :lol !

Any else had similar experience with this junk ?

Pardon me while I run to the toilet again ..............

 

[Dilbert]

I feel bad for you...

...but you have to admit that any story that involves "fecal incontinence" as a side effect has the potential for black comedy.

I think it's a travesty that the FDA removed the warning label, though. It makes you wonder whose side the FDA is REALLY on -- big business, or consumers. Hmmmm.

 

[LakeEarth]

I tried some of the pringles ones wayy back, I didn't have problems. Then again, still eww.

At my University, we have a lecture/presentation thing with a guest every week, and about a month back we had a man who's part of a company where they're making a pill that has a molecule surrounds fat in your body, so it just passes through but not in the leaky kind of way Olestra is. Sounded interesting, but it's still got a LOT more years of clinical trials before I'll be trying any. But the guy says he's been taking it for 2 years and that there are no adverse effects. Though he was a crackpot, he showed clinical trials that seemed quite real. We'll see how this goes, though I have a feeling I'll never hear about it ever again.

 

[goodcow]

Olestra can cause anal leakage.

 

[Nester]

I told a co-worker about the chips when I saw that she had an unopened pringles can on her desk. She thought "Oh they must have resolved that by now" and had a bunch. By the end of the night she was running to the bathroom pretty frequently. Poor girl.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

To me it seems a small price. In fact, it makes trips to the bathroom go quicker. Not even time to get any portable gaming on!*


*Note: In reality my Gaming Time and Feces Time are mutually exclusive.

 

[DJ Sl4m]

To me it seems a small price. In fact, it makes trips to the bathroom go quicker. Not even time to get any portable gaming on!*


*Note: In reality my Gaming Time and Feces Time are mutually exclusive.

anal leakage

 

[The Shadow]

It makes you wonder whose side the FDA is REALLY on -- big business, or consumers. Hmmmm.

Not really. It only confirms long standing suspicions.

 

[Triumph]

MMM ANAL LEAKAGE

Haha, I remember this shit from back in the day.

Thank God the FDA is there to rubber stamp this and shitty Monsanto drugs for cows, but refuses to put labels on bio "enhanced" foods despite like 90% of the populace's support for such an initiative.

 

[videogamer]

MMM ANAL LEAKAGE

add lube and we can call it Santorum

 

[Triumph]

add lube and we can call it Santorum

Yes yes, I know. Remember, I live in midtown Atlanta, where I am the only straight man for like a two mile radius. And I STILL can't get laid.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

anal leakage

For what have our soldiers fought and died, if not for the freedom to have consentual anal leakage?

 

[Willco]

On the OLD Olestra Lays chips bags it actually said:

WARNING: MAY CAUSE ANAL LEAKAGE

... It always made me laugh.

 

[videogamer]

Yes yes, I know. Remember, I live in midtown Atlanta, where I am the only straight man for like a two mile radius. And I STILL can't get laid.

just trying to do my part in making the word "santorum" more popular. 2006 is around the corner

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

just trying to do my part in making the word "santorum" more popular. 2006 is around the corner

Of course for search engine purposes it is better to link santorum than to just say it.

 

[videogamer]

Of course for search engine purposes it is better to link santorum than to just say it.

tee hee forgot

even though, its even better to spread it so it becomes part of colloquial language

I have to admit that if the left weren't behind in Congress, Senator santorum would have been great entertainment. Well, at least Pennsylvania makes chocolate which is much better than santorum.

 

[G4life98]

the thing about the "anall leakage" thing is that it seems to happen with such frequency you really cant call it a rare side effect that only happens in like 10% of the population...i wonder how much the fda got paid to let this obviously flawed product through.

 

[The Shadow]

the thing about the "anall leakage" thing is that it seems to happen with such frequency you really cant call it a rare side effect that only happens in like 10% of the population...i wonder how much the fda got paid to let this obviously flawed product through.

Believe it or not, I actually think the anal leakage makes sense considering the nature of the product. It's a fat molecule that can't be absorbed easily into the body. You'd expect "greasy" stool as it were.

It's the cramping that concerns me, and how the FDA can ignore that is beyond me. Back when it was big with Lay's, I couldn't eat more than a few chips before I'd get some stomach cramping. That's another side effect that has been largely ignored and I doubt it's as "rare" as they say.

 

[DJ Sl4m]

For what have our soldiers fought and died, if not for the freedom to have consentual anal leakage?

hahaha, I dunno why, but this REALLY struck me as hilarious this morning ;P

BTW, I wonder how long before the FDA actually goes after something they should which really matters................like say tobaco, hmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[xsarien]

Man, I thought this was common knowledge. Olean/Olestra - from the very beginning - was widely known to make you, well, run for the border.

 

[Teflar]

I thought this was old news too...

I never had any problems with it, but my g/f in Highschool wouldn't eat food with it in it cause it made her poopy messy.

And no, that didn't seem like too much info at the time, heh.

 

[SKluck]

It actually doubles its weight control effeciency if you think about it. Not only is it itself lower in calories/fat, but it makes you shit out it and anything else you've eaten much faster, and less digested, thus, you do not absorb as many nutrients/calories from the food you eat.

 

[LakeEarth]

It's kinda cool how it's structured though. It's actually a sugar molecule, and attached all around it are lipid molecules. So no enzyme can get close and cut the sugar, no fat catabolizing enzyme can recognize the sugar. I heard they spend billions on figuring that out, though.

 

[Mainline]

Here's a good Olestra story