California will soon adopt a healthier lifestyle by become the first state in the country to ban restaurants, bakeries from using oil, margarine and shortening containing trans fats.

The legislation by Assemblyman Tony Mendoza, D-Artesia was signed by Schwarzenegger, a former bodybuilder who regularly talks about healthy eating and exercise in 2008.

The move will finally take effect this year as enough time has been given to outlets to convert their cooking processes.

Restaurants can however continue using trans fats to deep-fry yeast dough and in cake batter until January 1 next year.

Those permitted for frying are oils, margarine and shortening with less than a half gram of trans fat but many restaurants have already switched over to healthy oils including olive, canola and soybean oils.

Kelly Bennett of Scoma's said, “It is something good for you versus something bad for you. If they are the same flavor-wise someone should help you have that choice.”

Restaurants who flout the rules could be fined up to a $1,000. Restaurant customers stated that they were happy about the ban.