There are certain things we understand to be beneficial to our health. Getting enough quality sleep, getting enough exercise and eating the right amounts of healthy food are generally understood to be the foundation of healthy living. And on the first two areas there is a general consensus as to how much sleep is necessary as well as the benefits conferred by the different types of exercise options. But when it comes to nutrition there still exists some beliefs which don't have support in the primary literature. For example, there are still a number of people that maintain the position that saturated fat is bad and must be eliminated from the diet. These same people will then eliminate foods that contain this fat in an attempt to be healthier. I don't eat red meat anymore.I have egg whites for breakfast.I eat only low-fat dairy.Do these statements sound familiar? When we do a consult and assessment with a new client we go over the nutritional habits of the clients as this will play a huge role towards realizing their results. And many of them give the answers above to demonstrate the efforts they are making towards healthier living. While it's not a new position for us to recommend our clients eat a balanced diet including all three types of fat I was still out to learn more. And so I recently attended a seminar at Kelowna General Hospital on Fats by Dr. Sanjoy Ghosh from UBC-O. Dr. Ghosh presented some interesting notes during his 75 minute presentation. Some were common sense such as the fact we have increased our portion sizes dramatically over the last few generations. And some foods in particular have seen huge increases such as our consumption of soybean oil which in the 1950s was 0.02 lbs per person...