In 1996, Proctor & Gamble launched an artificial fat substitute that promised all of the taste but none of the calories. There was just one problem. 

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• Marion Nestle’s The Selling of Olestra
• Jeffrey Steingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything
• The 1996 Federal Register
• The Trouble With Fries
• Reduction of the body burden of PCBs and DDE by dietary intervention in a randomized trial
• Review of the effects of dilution of dietary energy with olestra on energy intake
• Authors’ Financial Relationships With the Food and Beverage Industry and Their Published Positions on the Fat Substitute Olestra
• Postmarketing Surveillance of New Food Ingredients: Results from the Program with the Fat Replacer Olestra
• Effects of wheat bran and olestra on objective measures of stool and subjective reports of GI symptoms
• The effect of ingesting olestra-based foods on feeding behavior and energy balance in humans
• Effect on Body Weight of Replacing Dietary Fat with Olestra for Two or Ten Weeks in Healthy Men and Women 

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