For as long as I can remember, I couldn't stand fat. The taste, the texture, the way it seemed to coat my mouth, everything about it made me want to cut it off my steak and leave it on the side of the plate. It never occurred to me that this was anything more than a simple matter of preference. Some people liked the fatty bits; I didn't. That preference fit neatly with something else I had been told since childhood: eating fat makes you fat. As a slightly chubby kid who was o