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May 4, 2001
The Most Tested Food Substance In Human History
This is how Dr. Henry Miller (of the Hoover Institution) describes the fat-substitute Olestra, in an article written for the Cato Institute's magazine, Regulation. Despite the product's repeatedly demonstrated safety and usefulness, it continues to get a thumbs-down rating from über-nanny Michael Jacobson at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Perhaps CSPI's opposition to this revolutionary product was influenced by the $40,000 in grants it accepted during 1998 and 1999 from the Helena Rubenstein Foundation for "public education on [the] health effects of olestra." Whatever CSPI's reasons, Dr. Miller has the scoop on why the group is dead wrong. For the latest issue of Regulation in its entirety, click here.
This is how Dr. Henry Miller (of the Hoover Institution) describes the fat-substitute Olestra, in an article written for the Cato Institute's magazine, Regulation. Despite the product's repeatedly demonstrated safety and usefulness, it continues to get a thumbs-down rating from über-nanny Michael Jacobson at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Perhaps CSPI's opposition to this revolutionary product was influenced by the $40,000 in grants it accepted during 1998 and 1999 from the Helena Rubenstein Foundation for "public education on [the] health effects of olestra." Whatever CSPI's reasons, Dr. Miller has the scoop on why the group is dead wrong. For the latest issue of Regulation in its entirety, click here.
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