Flipping through a recent National newspaper, an interesting article caught my eye. Americans in recent months have made the low-fat eating trend history, and are instead indulging in those decadent foods that just a few years ago seemed to be dubbed “forbidden fruit.”

Dieters and health nuts alike were no doubt among the millions of people who supported the tasteless low-fat trend. It’s about time people realized these supposedly healthy foods realisticly provide little benefits.

My theory is most people succumbed to the fact that the low-fat or no-fat foods they consumed did little to combat their own personal battle of the bulge or lowered that number on their scale.

C’mon, we all tried those WOW chips by Frito-Lay and found that either we could finish the entire bag without satisfying our appetites or we were laying on the tiles of our bathroom floor chugging Pepto-Bismal before finishing even a few handfuls. And I bet you tried that pasty substance called fat-free ice cream that bored our taste buds to death.

It’s no wonder that both Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream and Frito-Lay have unveiled new fat-laden products (like we need anymore) sure to become mainstays in Americans’ freezers and pantries.

People not longer want to sacrifice taste for a low-fat food that likely won’t do anything for them other then leaving them hungry. The belief that reduced-fat foods will increase your health, let alone decrease your weight is but a pipe-dream.

Food manufacturers seemed to have caught on to Americans’ new attachment to fat and are now tossing aside any plans to induce people into another fat-free product.

With significant drops in the sales of reduced-fat foods in just the past year, it’s no surprise to me that fatty, yet flavorful snacks are being introduced in rapid fashion rather than a new line of tasteless cookies and ice cream.

Low-fat guru Snackwell’s is one of the many lines of health products that has watched its sales plummet dramatically in recent years.

I believe we are partially demonstrating through our renewed fascination with fatty food that we want comfort, especially in this treacherous period our country is enduring. And tasty food is arguably the lone comfort we can ingest legally.

Most people will eat until they’re full and no innovative fat-free food will stop them.

So swallow your guilt this family weekend, and spoon your way through that mouth-watering Blissful Blend. Remember you can always work it off and besides, the low-fat trend is by the wayside.

Karen Kirr is a sophomore journalism and a semimonthly columnist for The Verge. You can contact her at [email protected].