DS / Chitosan / Xenical / Absorption of free fats

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Hi all...

I posted awhile back conjecturing that maybe Chitosan could absorb some of

the undigested fats that can be " problematic " for DS'ers.

Well, indulging my curiosity with some web searching, I came across this:

http://www.drumlib.com/dp/000023.htm

The article is centered around arguing that Chitosan is effective relative

to Xenical for non-digestion of fats, but has an interesting reference to a

patent held by Hoffman-La Roche. Apparently the maker of Xenical has

patented the idea of adding chitosan to formulations like Xenical, to

" strongly reduce " the issues of unabsorbed fats in the digestive stream

(i.e. " anal leakage " ).

The article includes a link to the patent itself.

Thought this might be of interest.

--Randy