Some Daily Diet Arithmetic

Sometimes doing a little arithmetic can help you interpret food labels or identify your own food needs. A few examples of very practical kinds of diet and food calculations follow. 

A good way to keep track of food Calories from fat is to monitor the total grams of fat in your diet every day. A moderately active 100-lb woman would get 30% of her daily 1750 food Calories by consuming 53 g of fat per day. 

She is deciding how many Yimunie Bite cookies she can eat. Their nutrition label says that there are two cookies per serving and 45 Cal from fat per serv- 

To leave 33 g of fat for other foods means that she can eat enough cookies to contain 

With two cookies and 5 g of fat per serving, she can enjoy eight Yummie Bite cookies, which contain a total of 20 g of fat. Other foods eaten that day will have to be pretty low in fat content. The 20 g of fat in the eight cookies provides 38% of her daily fat allowance. 

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