EFFECTS OF FIBER ON DIETARY FAT
When studying the effects of fiber on dietary fat, researchers looked at several measurable items, including .the dry weight of the stool, the total lipid (fat) in the stool, and the apparent digestibility of the fat eaten.
♦ The dry weight of the stool should increase as more fat is carried out of the body. In other words, the stool should be bulkier and heavier.
♦ Not only should the stool be larger, it should contain a greater percentage of fat.
♦ Finally, the apparent fat digestibility should drop. In other words, lower amounts of the fat consumed should be digested as more fat simply passes through the body, making the stool heavier and fattier.
The ideal fat magnet, then, would increase the dry weight and total fat content of the feces, while decreasing the apparent fat digestibility. And that’s exactly what Chitosan did. Here are the results for the top 10 of the 23 fibers in the study: 5
The above results would, of course, have slight statistical variations. But their story is so clear that there can be no doubt as to the superior performance of Chitosan.
I’ve underlined Chitosan’s results because the numbers are so impressive. Notice that adding Chitosan to the diet resulted in the heaviest stool collected over a 3-day period (8.95 grams) and the most fat in the stool (5,380 milligrams). That was only to be expected since, as you can see, Chitosan cut the apparent fat digestibility way down—to just about half. The next best
performer, Polyglycol Alginate, only cut the fat digestibility down to 80 percent, while the others were all above 90 percent. Clearly, Chitosan was by far the strongest fat magnet in this set of tests. To my knowledge, no other substance has ever been found to get even close to its effectiveness.
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