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Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.

Michael F. Jacobson
Wall, Body, Fats
"FDA looks at fat substitute" by Eugenia Halsey, www.cnn.com. November 18, 1995.
Fat slips through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream where it distributes the nutrients throughout the body. Olestra can't get through the wall, and it continues down the intestines and out the body.