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and Burger King Holdings Inc.

have also said they will phase out trans fat from their products.

KFC said the change in cooking oils will not change how its fried chicken tastes.

"We have safeguarded the recipe and the flavor profile," said Doug Hasselo, KFC's chief food innovation officer.

Hasselo said the new cooking oil costs more, but the chain will absorb the extra expense without passing it along to customers.

The zero grams trans fat items at KFC also include its potato wedges.

Some of KFC's non-fried items still contain trans fat, including biscuits, pot pies, macaroni and cheese, and some desserts.

The company said it's working to remove trans fat from those items.

KFC was unveiling television advertising Monday to promote its switch to cooking oil without trans fat.

KFC stores will put up signs touting the conversion, and the chicken buckets will carry the health message within a week or two.

The company won praise from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that pushed for KFC to switch to a healthier cooking oil.

"To get rid of this one major problem improves their customers' health automatically, without the consumers doing anything," said Michael Jacobson, the group's executive director.

Customers at a KFC restaurant in the chain's hometown said they appreciated the change.

Steve Garber, part of a recent lunch...

(WEN), Starbucks Corp.(SBUX), McDonald's Corp.

(MCD) and Burger King Holdings Inc.

(BKC) have also said they will phase out trans fat from their products.

KFC said the change in cooking oils will not change how its fried chicken tastes.

"We have safeguarded the recipe and the flavor profile," said Doug Hasselo, KFC's chief food innovation officer.

Hasselo said the new cooking oil costs more, but the chain will absorb the extra expense without passing it along to customers.

The zero grams trans fat items at KFC also include its potato wedges.

Some of KFC's non-fried items still contain trans fat, including biscuits, pot pies, macaroni and cheese, and some desserts.

The company said it's working to remove trans fat from those items.

KFC was unveiling television advertising Monday to promote its switch to cooking oil without trans fat.

KFC stores will put up signs touting the conversion, and the chicken buckets will carry the health message within a week or two.

The company won praise from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that pushed for KFC to switch to a healthier cooking oil.

"To get rid of this one major problem improves their customers' health automatically, without the consumers doing anything," said Michael Jacobson, the group's executive director.

Customers at a KFC restaurant in the chain's hometown said they appreciated the change.

Steve Garber...

There are many other such examples.So what, you may ask.

Are you looking for sympathy?

Well yes, actually.

Not because of the bad hand God has dealt us men - she's a vengeful deity, after all, so it's best to accept our fate gracefully - but because our biological misfortune is being compounded by active discrimination.Last week, a 61-year-old KwaZulu-Natal man, Francis Blackmore, was arrested in Cape Town after holding the provincial head of the Human Rights Commission hostage at gunpoint for two hours.

Much was made in the local media and on television of the commissioner's bravery in persuading the gunman to let his staff go and hold him alone instead.

But they glossed over the explanation Blackmore gave for his desperate behaviour - he was protesting against the fact that, as a rule in SA, men reach pensionable age only at 65, whereas women start receiving payments at 60.Now, I am not for a moment suggesting that Blackmore's means of addressing his complaint was correct - although in choosing that approach he may have been as much of a slave to his chromosomes as a woman who burst into tears and sought out a sympathetic authority figure to confide in.

He has a point, though.

Why do women get...