Part 1 of Essay
? The eighties were the years of muscle building and nouvelle cuisine and we like to call it the decade of the fitness obsession. We, the people of the nineties, have gotten so discouraged with all of our Ab Trainers and Buns of Steel that we have reverted to what seems to be an easy way to stay trim: food substitutes. Sug ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... why I think that food substitutes come to them somehow like a miracle. Until now, diabetics, for example, were faced with two choices: eat the fake foods that taste nothing like the real thing, or pass. Sure, a man with a heart disease will not be able to eat a steak, but maybe he will be allowed to eat the French fries to go with it if they are prepared with Olean (Olestra). Olean is a fat derivative that chemically resembles real fat, with the exception that is much bigger, cannot be absorbed by the organism ....