So if your goal is to lose weight or stay healthy, your best bet is probably to have a small serving of regular ice cream, a serving -- no seconds -- of a low-fat and low-sugar ice cream, or better yet, a bowl of fresh fruit -- with a tablespoon or two of ice cream on top if you really love it!

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Finally, a discovery: Flavor and consistency came only from the outside of the fat droplets in ice cream.

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Some of them were gazing with dull avarice at the store on the other side of the road, the Ideal Traders Ice Cream Parlor, where fat kids in T-shirts were licking vanilla cones.

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As long as they were low-fat, we could eat cookies and ice cream, chips, pasta and fruit roll-ups.

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Mr. FIRE: It's okay to have a party, but I would still have low-fat frozen yogurt at the party and not ice cream.

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The McCulloughs perfected the recipe, and found that using 5%-6% butter fat, rather than the usual 10%, and serving the ice cream at 18 F made for the optimum soft ice cream.

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