Percent of calories from fat

From Ray Kump, CPA

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It is recommended that not more than 30% of your calories should come from fat. If your target caloric intake is 1800 then no more than 30 grams of that should be from fat.

This equation helps you keep on target. A food may be low in calories and the amount of fat may not seem so high, yet the percentage of calories from fat may be very high. These sneaky foods can throw off your dieting more than you realize. I lost 60 pounds just by watching the fat content of what I was eating. I never realized how much fat I was actually consuming.

I also use a food database, FOOD.ZIP <ON DISK>. As an example it tells me that a hot dog from Hardees may have 346 calories and 22 grams of fat, resulting in 57% of the calories coming from fat. A very damaging food.

The following equation calculates the % of calories from fat in a food.

{Calories/grams fat|

Grams_Fat*9/Calories=%_Fat/100}