Pepsi's 'fat-fighting' soda too good to be true?

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-- and -- all you want this Turkey day just make sure you have a Pepsi.

The soft drink giant has launched what it calls and fat fighting soda.

You run -- the store look forward if you won't want but you can only find it if you're now watching us in Japan.

Because that's the only place they're selling -- in Minnesota that apparently contains some sort of dietary fiber.

Which the folks at Pepsi say can actually block your body from absorbing fat.

Here's the commercial from Japan.

A company statement even claims it can keep dangerous triglycerides.

At bay after -- big -- Health experts are already questioning these claims and a big way and you should not expect to find the stuff stateside any time soon.

Federal health officials frown upon companies adding nutrients to came to your soda in an attempt to make this vaccine.

In some way.

Healthy or something.

Lisa Silberman is -- this now.

She's a nutritionist at the universities the university of the university of hospitals success.

That run university hospital -- and -- -- that makes more sense within the word yet.

Sodas with fiber to fight.

-- it just seems hocus -- stupid.

It it does and actually took the words right out man out there fun.

You know what they're really doing here is extrapolating that data still we know that -- -- is good for you.

We know that foods -- naturally high and high of -- can help with -- last.

But that does not mean that and taking the fiber and adding it to things like soda.

Will make them away last -- -- why not.

Well -- -- to lose weight you know we've heard it kind of panic and you have to -- in less calories -- -- bar and still the type of fiber that they're adding today snow back.

We have no good research showing that it makes our bodies not -- fat.

Or burn more calories.

Or even and that he can help with -- high eighty or cholesterol levels.

Still it's other foods the lake oats for example men have naturally occurring soluble fiber.

That can help decrease cholesterol levels.

And naturally occur rain that fiber that's found in fruits and vegetables that can help make you feel full and that's -- lacks and lose weight.

So eat fruits and vegetables do a little exercising and lay off the Pepsi.

I had been -- this -- -- you you set it in a nutshell well.

That's it's a great idea have to have some -- and over -- moderation hopefully tomorrow and not exactly every now and then is -- -- We just don't expect that kind of magic pill -- -- to post.

-- it's ever -- thanks very much.

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