I am so looking forward to the demise of the processed-food industry, now that people finally realize that hydrogenated fat is evil. (Click soon–expires in a week.) Duh–if the fat is forced to stay solid at room temperature, why do you think it will behave differently inside your body?

The sweetest turn of events:

“There was a lot of resistance from the scientific community because a lot of people had made their careers telling people to eat margarine instead of butter,” said Walter Willett, chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and one of a handful of medical researchers who have led the fight against trans fat. “When I was a physician in the 1980’s, that’s what I was telling people to do and unfortunately we were often sending them to their graves prematurely.”

Now I’m going to eat a natural peanut butter sandwich, and feel smug. And thank my parents for always using butter, and withholding Jif even when I whined and moaned.