The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts
January 04, 2005
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Garbage in, garbage out

Tizzie just pointed me to this article in her home-ish town newspaper about how Fat-Free Pringles will save the world, or something like that:

In a study published this month by the American Physiological Society and another study accepted for publication in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, the UC and Western Australia scientists assert that Olestra, the ingredient that makes it possible for Procter & Gamble to produce Fat Free Pringles, can be used to remove a class of 12 toxins, including dioxin, from the body.
Whoa.

How amazing that the much-maligned Olestra--the very substance that catapulted the phrase "anal leakage" onto the nightly news--has sort of, maybe, redeemed itself. Or not, given the "treatment worse than cure" potential.

Posted by Dana at 12:51 PM

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yes, olestra is helpful in draining the body of waste products. very fucking quickly.

Posted by: reeves at January 4, 2005 12:58 PM

Is this why I haven't seen hide nor hair of you in a week?

Posted by: dana at January 4, 2005 01:20 PM

pertinent Simpsons quote:

Homer: Apu, do you have any of those chips that give you diarrhea? I wanna do a little spring cleaning.

Posted by: condour at January 4, 2005 01:52 PM

I believe the phrase in question was "anal seepage." A bit more visceral.

Posted by: max at January 4, 2005 03:18 PM

actually, the reason i've been absent is that i've been busy draining my body of snot. got hit with the full-blown swine flu on friday, could barely leave the house till monday. happy freakin' new year is right.

Posted by: reeves at January 4, 2005 03:27 PM

Hey, someone notify Yushchenko.

About the olestra, not about that snot-body reeves.

Posted by: Fes at January 4, 2005 04:21 PM

Reeves: I got the same deal a week and a half ago. The fever and chills petered out after several days, but for a week my body was like a factory producing the most copious quantities of dense and colorful mucus.

I know that's probably TMI...

Dana: You've been MeFied!

Posted by: Max at January 4, 2005 11:11 PM