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- Feb. 05, 1990: How To Pig Out But Avoid Fat
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 05, 1990 Mandela:Free At Last?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- HEALTH, Page 65
- How to Pig Out But Avoid Fat
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- <p>Foodmakers try to take some of the worry out of eating treats
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- <p> It sounds like the delirious wish of a junk-food junkie:
- no-fat desserts. In an effort to cater to consumers' concern
- over the link between high-fat diets and heart disease, food
- manufacturers are rolling out an array of low-fat and fat-free
- fancy pastries, creamy cakes and gooey snacks. This month
- Entenmann's introduced a dozen no-fat desserts, including
- Bavarian Creme Pastry and Pineapple Crunch Cake. They are made
- with nonfat milk and egg whites instead of whole eggs;
- according to Entenmann's, they do not contain a trace of oil,
- margarine or butter. Meanwhile, Hostess cupcakes, a favorite
- after-school snack for generations of children, will now come
- in a 97% fat-free version. Hostess Lights will seem more like
- sponge cake than a cupcake.
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- <p> Nutrition experts admit that these products, which also have
- no cholesterol, are improvements over the originals, but they
- are hardly health food. They are still loaded with sugar and
- thus can promote tooth decay. Says Bonnie Liebman, nutrition
- director at Washington's Center for Science in the Public
- Interest: "Getting rid of fat is one of the most important
- dietary changes to improve health, but we're still talking
- about cake, not broccoli. It has virtually no nutritional
- value."
- </p>
- <p> Other manufacturers have rushed to create fat substitutes,
- such as olestra and Simplesse. These compounds, which have not
- yet received Food and Drug Administration approval, mimic the
- texture of fats but have considerably fewer or no calories.
- Liebman, whose group believes olestra is potentially cancer
- promoting, applauds Hostess and Entenmann's for being able to
- reduce fat content and preserve taste without resorting to a
- fat substitute.
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