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CLASSIC: Several Terrifying Things You Just Ate

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Ironolestra: A Diet Thing That Makes You Hungry

Olestra has been linked to gastrointestinal disease in children and terrible, awful, horrible, no good, very bad bouts of diarrhea in grown adults. It's still allowed in small levels in chicken feed here in the US, not in the European Union. You'll probably see it listed as olene, which is like the brand name. Probably in American foods, you'll find olene. However, you will not find it in Canada or Europe, where it is banned.

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