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   Zero calorie fat substitutes have been touted as health enhancing. A
 recent report on sucrose polyester fat substitute should give cause for
 concern. No effect on body weight was found for feeding human subjects
 either control margarine or margarine doped with 50% sucrose polyester
 for 4 weeks. Plasma levels of cancer fighting lycopene were significantly
 decreased by sucrose polyester consumption. This report implies that this
 fat substitute will not act to reduce body weight. Conversely it will
 probably act to increase the risk of cancer by suppressing plasma
 lycopene levels. If this is so then the release of sucrose polyester for
 human consumption by the FDA might come to be regarded by some as a
 criminal act subject to prosecution at a future date.

 references:
   "Sucrose Polyester and Plasma Carotenoid Concentrations in Healthy
 Subjects" Am J Clin Nut 1995;62:591-597
   "Intake of Carotenoids and Retinol in Relation to Risk of Prostate
 Cancer" J Natl Cancer Inst 1995;87:1767-1776
   "Tomatoes and Risk of Digestive-Tract Cancers" Int. J. Cancer
 1994;59:181-184