The Amateur Gourmet has a good post on fat in foods, which very closely mirrors my own views.

He even trots out that old axiom, one that has been so repeated by our elders so much that is almost cliche.

Cooking with fat, in many ways, is like sex. Sex in and of itself isn’t bad for you…But take it too far–meet a 70-year old hooker on the internet for a tantric orgy with the cast of “Eight Is Enough”–and you’ll be itching and burning ’til kingdom come.