Faking it

The Dow Chemical company wants to sell you a new fat blocker as a way to allow you to eat unhealthy foods.

Forget that the last fat blocker on the market was Olestra, which had to have a warning label attached to it because of the nasty greasy stool leaking it caused.

Forget that your body needs healthy fats to be healthy.

Forget that the absorption of vitamins such as the carotenoids you get from pumpkin, carrot, and squash — which help reduce the incidence to breast cancer — is assisted by those healthy fats.

According to this report, the product “Satisfit” has undergone internal trials at Dow Chemical (still unpublished) focusing on hamsters fed a diet of hamburgers, fries and pound cake. The researchers claim that the animals gained 7% less weight than those on a control diet.

If we ate real food, and did so in control, Dow Chemical would have to focus on making chemicals to strip wax from your floor, rather than applying those chemicals as a workaround for bad eating habits.

If we ate real food, and did so in control, those healthy fats would not be a liability for your weight or your health in the first place.

Thus … if we ate real food, and did so in control, we could head off our weight and health problems before they happen, rather than applying designer drugs created to “trick” your body into not absorbing the fats, and trick your mind into thinking its okay to eat unhealthy food.

Maybe that should be our focus.

Read the entire article here.