Chitosan is processed from chitin, mostly obtained from crushed shellfish shells, crab shells, and similar. Chitosan is a polymer with structure similar to cellulose. It has applications in industry, such as to hold catalysts.

The national governments of both Britain and USA have taken legal actions against makers and sellers of chitosan as a diet supplement, because claims that fat absorption can be blocked by ingesting chitosan have been tested and proven false. Yet many internet sites are still selling this snake- oil medicine. I wonder why that is. Don't good guys win and make bad guys go away?

One of diet sales sites told me that chitosan is an extract of crushed shellfish shells, and can ionically attract "negatively charged fat like a magnet". For starters, mechanism of magnets does not involve ions or charge attraction.

An example does come to mind in which ions interact with fats, namely making and use of soaps.

Again, let's turn to handy Google.Com search engine.

Soap was discovered at least four thousand years ago, and many times in many places since then. Soap was not always used to clean, sometimes soft form being used to treat open wounds, or as a hair dressing, for two examples. One way for soap to form is for fat drippings from a cooking fire to combine with water and alkali existing in wood ashes. This alkali is hydroxide of sodium and potassium. One legend says that rain water falling on fire altars used for animal sacrifice to gods caused soap to form and flow into streams that were then discovered to be good for cleaning clothes.

Please note: This article has nothing to do with several "Jesus Diet" hits found on google.com. Some of those provide food for thought, while others are just plain foolish.

For numerous reasons, exact knowledge about Joshua ben Joseph, person, is rather scarce. The New Testament was assembled several centuries after his death, and really was not focused on historical person's life. In fact, I have read excerpts from later theological texts which "prove" that Jesus neither ate meat nor defecated, both of which seem unlikely.

So, best guess at what Jesus ate can be obtained from study of Mediterranean cultures, especially Jewish.

First Conclusion: Jesus never ate ham, not even for Easter or Christmas. People ate pork at risk of death from trichinosis (a worm infestation).

Second Conclusion: Jesus did eat fish. This is documented in New Testament. He did not eat any sea food which lacked fins or scales, such as clams, oysters, crabs, lobster, octopus, eel, as these were un-clean by Jewish Kosher laws. Likewise, he did not eat meat from pigs, horses, donkeys, camels, vultures. He could have eaten deer meat, chicken, duck, turkey, eggs, et cetera. Most likely, he did not eat rabbit, squirrel, rat, or any birds of prey.

Kosher laws were originally based on good empirical observation on what foods did or did not cause illness. They are not latest word on good health practices. Some of Kosher laws go against modern medical and common sense. However, concepts of "eat only what is good for you", and "do not kill food animals with avoidable suffering" are certainly good ones.

Third Conclusion: Jesus did not eat four legged meat every day. The average for those times was about once a week to once a month, even for sheep herders. Hunters in field probably ate more meat. This does NOT mean that Jesus was a vegetarian, as some claim.

Fourth Conclusion: Jesus ate bread; lots and lots of bread. And it was not "low carb", either.

Fifth Conclusion: Jesus probably ate fruits, vegetables, grains, garbanzo beans, nuts, olives, goat cheese, salted fish (when fresh was not available). He probably also needed salt in his diet, ate honey, but most certainly did not eat refined sugars.