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elizabeth j powell wrote:

1.  <another question i have is about olean.  i've heard it's on our list of
nono's.  why is this?  i was really hoping it would be allowed, it would be
nice to eat potato chips again:)>

Olestra, which has been out for a few years, is on our list because it just
seems to make our hair-trigger diahrrea worse, but Olean is brand new and I
was wondering about it myself so I'm glad she asked.  I haven;t seen anything
about it on this net.  Anybody got any info?  Is it the same as Olestra under
a different manufacturer's name?  Or is it a new substance we need to take a
look at?

2.  Most of us are familiar with the Pacific Rice Drink because we have to
avoid Rice Dream.  While benign for us to drink, it never contained much
nutrition, calcium or protein.  It's essentially rice water.  And the high
protein soy drinks are so high in fat to get some protein.  Now Pacific has
out a non-dairy, fat free, soy beverage which actually has some protein and
more calcium with hardly any more calories.  I haven't been able to get ahold
of them yet to check its GF status, but Pacific has been all OK in that
regard so far.  And it's priced less than the Rice drink, so more nutrition
for less money.  I like the taste.

Jere Cordell in So. Cal.