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Eating Butter Many were exuberant about Bryan Walsh's widely shared June 23 cover story about what science got wrong in the war on fat. "You have no idea how delighted I was," wrote Sue McAbery of Rhododendron, Ore. "I have been insisting butter is better than substitutes for 50 years. How nice to see... experts are saying so too!" "So @TIME says we should eat more butter? All righty, then. We're on it," tweeted Bon Appetit Others, like Hunter College professor emerita Regina Linder, urged caution in interpreting the research. The story, she wrote, "demonstrates that the reduction of dietary fat in the U.S. was substituted (or occurred coincidentally) with an increase in simple carbohydrates... It does not demonstrate the safety of fats." And for Jacqueline Buie of Pacifica, Calif., the takeaway was this: "Moderation in all things. It seems my mother was right after all."