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Biotech / Medical : OPTS--Opta Food Ingredients -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kinkblot who wrote (84)	4/10/2001 11:03:55 PM
From: kinkblot	Respond to of 85

"The Soft Science of Dietary Fat" by Gary Taubes in Science Vol. 291, No. 5513 (30 March 2001), pages 2536-45 sciencemag.org Good review article for those who subscribe to Science Online. Carbohydrates are what Harvard's Willett calls the flip side of the calorie trade-off problem. Because it is exceedingly difficult to add pure protein to a diet in any quantity, a low-fat diet is, by definition, a high-carbohydrate diet--just as a low-fat cookie or low-fat yogurt are, by definition, high in carbohydrates. This is relevant to Opta since they make carbohydrate-based fat substitutes. Assuming this trade-off, i.e. a low-fat diet tends to be high-carbohydrate, cholesterol profile and glycemic index (how fast food is broken down into simple sugars) are altered in predictable ways. Those in turn may be correlated with risk of heart disease and ease of weight gain. WT