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Both spreads come with pretty good scientific credentials. The key ingredient in Benecol, which was approved last week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, comes from a compound that occurs naturally in pine trees. Take Control, which got the green light in April, uses an extract made from soybean oil. Randomized, controlled trials show that folks with mildly elevated cholesterol levels (between 200 mg/dl and 240 mg/dl) who ate roughly two tablespoons of Benecol a day decreased their level of LDL, the "bad cholesterol," about 14%. The manufacturers of Take Control, on the other hand, designed their product...
Both Benecol and Take Control make it harder for the intestines to absorb cholesterol. (About half of the cholesterol in the gut comes from your diet; the other half gets produced by your body.) There is evidence that the active ingredients can pull some vitamin A precursors out of circulation--although researchers did not consider the reduction significant...
...spreads taste? In a highly unscientific study, my colleague Janice Horowitz and I sampled both products. Without telling Janice which was which, I spread Benecol, Take Control and regular margarine on three pieces of whole wheat bread. Then she did the same for me. Overall, we found all three tasted pretty much alike, although Janice described a "funny mouth feel" after eating the cholesterol-fighting spreads. I found Benecol marginally less tasty...
...prattle about how to sensitize parents, teachers and school counselors to the warning signals of impending mass killings by ticked-off teenagers with easy access to assault weapons. Do what the rest of us have done after similar massacres in Canada, Britain and New Zealand: immediately pass stringent gun-control laws. Trust us, it works. Just do it. MERLIE PAPADOPOULLOS Montreal...
...Hillary Clinton's quote introducing the President for a gun-control speech: "Part of growing up is learning to control one's impulses" [NOTEBOOK, May 10]. One wonders why she didn't give this bit of homespun philosophy to husband Bill. HELEN KLECKNER Conshohocken...