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| 827.1 | I agree with you Mike Z... | PURCH7::OSHAUGHNESSY | Let LIFE be your GOAL | Thu Sep 16 1993 21:28 | 9 |
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See Mike Z's 715.2...
Sounds good in my book !!!
Or DIR/TITLE=FAT brings up several notes on fat.
Laurie O
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| 827.2 | | BINKLY::FRANCESCHI | wild child | Thu Sep 16 1993 21:33 | 10 |
| thanks for the quick answer Laurie! :-)
i did find that and read several of the notes on fat, but what i've
found is how much to restrict fat to, ie: don't have more than n
grams or n%...
i'm wondering about how much you SHOULD eat and stay healthy on a
bodyfat reducing food plan...
/gina
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| 827.3 | | PURCH7::OSHAUGHNESSY | Let LIFE be your GOAL | Thu Sep 16 1993 21:45 | 15 |
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I don't consider 15-20% a restriction per say. That is a level most
nutritionist recommend. If you are trying to lose weight 1200-1500
calories 15-20% fat.
If you are trying to maintain then it takes some experimentation with
how many calories you need to maintain (Karen put a good chart in here
somewhere how to calculate this, I don't know where off top of my head
HELP, SOMEONE). But still the 15-20% applies when you are maintaing
your weight.
Maybe someone else can add more.... Karen... Mike ...
LO
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| 827.4 | yeah - what's the minimum? | GOLLY::CARROLL | something inside so strong | Fri Sep 17 1993 14:52 | 11 |
| Gina, I asked the same question a while ago - what is the *minimum* fat
percentage (everyone likes talking about maximums). I got no answers.
My fat % has gone up since then (I got less paranoid about eating fat)
so I'm not worried now, but at the time I was eating about 10% fat,
which is 1/3 of the "maximum" recommended. I have been told that fat
is necessary to carry nutrients to the body, but no one ever says how
much - it's like there's this basic assumption that every diet has
*enough*, and some have too much. I wonder if that's true.
D!
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| 827.5 | | PURCH7::OSHAUGHNESSY | Let LIFE be your GOAL | Fri Sep 17 1993 15:13 | 15 |
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I've read as little as 10% or as much as 30% fat. As anything else,
these are just guidlines, there is no magic number. I still believe that
you have do what feels right for your body. Some people can function on
10% calories from fat, and that's fine for them, but another can get
seriously ill. You still have to remember you body *DOES* need some
dietary fat.
I average about 15%-18%... Some days a little more (p-nut butter days),
some days less. I feel that I've found where I'm comfortable, for me,
for my body. This is a level, where I don't have to give it much
thought either and is not a struggle.
LO
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| 827.6 | | HDLITE::ZARLENGA | Michael Zarlenga, MRO AXP BPDA | Sat Sep 18 1993 09:14 | 6 |
| The minimum amount of fat you need to consume?
Good question! None of my books lists a minimum. They do mention
that low-fat diets will stunt the growth and development of children
and adolescents. They say nothing about minimum amount of fat that
matured adults require.
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| 827.7 | | CNTROL::JENNISON | John 3:16 - Your life depends on it! | Mon Sep 20 1993 14:08 | 21 |
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In a course I took this past July, the instructor noted that
this is being studied more closely right now to try to determine
the minimum. Preliminary studies indicate that the minimum is
higher than most people would assume (10-15% range). Some health
problems are being studied to determine if a very low fat diet
is the cause. Again, the studies are preliminary. I don't have
a source (there was probably one mentioned during the lecture, but
I didn't take note of it).
Recommendation to us was to continue to use the 25-30% guideline
set up by the ADA. (and supported by the American Heart association,
though I did hear about a year ago that they were considering lowering
the recommendation to 25% maximum.)
Personally, I tend to eat about 18% of my calories from fat.
This is more habit than anything else. I find that when I'm making
healthy food choices, I just tend to average out at that point.
Karen
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| 827.8 | gall-bladder problems from low-fat to high-fat | GOLLY::CARROLL | something inside so strong | Mon Sep 20 1993 14:57 | 9 |
| Well, I don't know about a minimum fat percentage, but I have heard
that a radical *change* in fat percentage (in particular, going from a
very low-fat diet to a high-fat diet) can cause gall-bladder problems.
In fact, I heard there were some suits against some of the commercial
diet programs (Nutri-system?) because after getting off the diet (and
presumably going back to the before-diet eating habits) the people got
very sick. Have no idea what the details or results were, though...
D!
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| 827.9 | FWIW.... | TOLKIN::OSHAUGHNESSY | Let LIFE be your GOAL | Thu Sep 23 1993 13:40 | 19 |
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FWIW:
I was reading "Eat more, Weigh Less" by Dean Ornish M.D. In his book
he said:
" Your body only needs about 4 to 6 percent calories of fat to
synthesize what are known as essential fatty acids."
He goes on to say that his Life Choice approach gets 10% calories from
fat.
I'm not saying he is right or wrong, he's just one Dr's opinion. This
is the first actual statement that I've read that actually stated a
minimum amount of fat needed by the body.
LO
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