How Many Fat Grams Should I Consume
Many people, women especially, are wondering, "How many fat grams should I consume in a day?" If you are a healthy person, looking to maintain your weight, and you have a normal body mass index, you should be taking in no more than 55 grams of fat per day. Your calories should fall between 1700 and 2000. If you are slightly to moderately overweight this number should drop to about 30 grams of fat per day, with calories between 1400 and 1700. For those that are closer to the obese range, your percent of total calories from fat should be 10 percent or less.
Posted by Four4Boys on 9/4/2009
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A friend of mine is on a very strict diet and only allows herself 15 grams of fat per day. She eats a lot (vegetables fruits, other non fat items)... but is this healthy for your body? How many grams of fat should I be consuimg per day...
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A: It's easy to figure. Let's say you need 2,000 calories a day to maintain your ideal body weight. To figure how many grams of fat you should limit yourself to, multiply 2,000 by .20 (20 percent) to get the number of calories of fat you should consume.
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; How many calories should you consume a day? How many grams of fat should you intake? ... If you consume 1600 calories, you should have no more than 50 grams of fat per day. This calorie and fat ratio is good for sedentary women, children and many older adults.
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So, I decided maybe I need to try someting else. My mother used to do low fat and I know things have changed a lot since than. More products on the market, etc... The thing I'm unsure of is if you want to lose weight how many grams of fat should you be eating in a day, and should you count calories also?
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I went on a low fat diet, but now that I am reading every label I noticed a lot of sodium in no fat meats. How many mg of sodium should I consume a day. I am on a 1200 calorie a day diet. Also how many calories from fat should I consume?
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How many fat grams and calories should I have daily? ... Your fat content should stay around 25% to 30% of your daily calories. If you are eating around 2,400 calories, 30% of that translates to 720 calories from fat. There are 9 calories per fat gram, so that means you need to consume about 80 grams of fat daily.
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