Dr Ellis seems quite full of himself. Correct the other guys if you think they're wrong, but his tone is a little overboard.

Dean4prez:

He's talking a lot about the FDA and labelling rules... how about some facts? I'd like to know if and how sugar alcohols are absorbed and how they're metabolized. What affects their absorption? How many calories do you get out of them? Isn't that more important than squabbling over how they're being marketed?

He hung around the War Zone for a while.

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?p=594130

(Please note that this is over a year old, he's probably not around anymore.)