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How Much Fat?
Do you find that trying to read food labels can be very confusion and frustrating? If you do, your not alone.
Most people have no idea how many calories of fat they consume each day. The next time you go food shopping you’ll be able to calculate how many fat calories are in the foods you buy.
Are you ready to start decreasing your fat intake? Great!!
To make things extremely easy for you, make sure you bring a calculator with you.
Let’s say you are looking at a food label on a box of cookies, look for the amount of calories per serving. ie. 150 calories per serving. now look for the number of calories from fat. Fat contains 9 calories per gram (2 grams would equal 18 calories)
So, if you have 5 grams of fat multiply that by 9. 9 x 5 = 45 (fat calories) Then divide 45 by the total number of calories 150 per serving and multiply the answer by 100.
Here’s how it looks. 150 calories per serving
5 grams of fat = 9 calories 9 x 5 = 45 fat calories
45 divided by 150 = 0.3
100 x 0.3 = 30% caloriies from fat
You want to try and avoid or conume as little as possible foods that say hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated on the food label.
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