The Tech of Why You're Fat

The graph above shows the roughly quarter-century trend in America's per-capita fat consumption. To our great non-surprise, we've became rather fond of gorging on foodstuffs that we know to be deleterious to our waistlines, though we're heartened to see that we've recently pulled back somewhat from the Popeyes-related brink.

Perhaps this trend has less to do with willpower, though, than the fact that science has darn nigh perfected the art of deep frying in recent years. Think it's easy to...