which your meat is cooked also counts in the cholesterol department. Frying your meat
is probably the worst way to prepare meat if you are trying to follow a low-fat diet.
Meats that are fried are also high in saturated fat, which can increase your cholesterol
levels. Instead, try baking, broiling, or roasting your meat. These methods can also
deliver some tasty dishes and will not sabotage your cholesterol-lowering efforts as
badly as frying your meat.
What about fish? Fish is the best source of protein and has very little fat. It averages
from 3-5% fats and the rest of its’ calories are proteins. They say that diseases are
hereditary. But they are not hereditary at all, rather, we have inherited the bad habits of
choosing improper foods and we have developed diseases as we processed them. Am I
saying that we should eat our food unprocessed or uncooked? No, but if you stick to
fresh food from the garden, fruits and vegetables, frozen foods, canned fruits and so on,
you’ll feel healthy and live healthy.
Now let’s learn to calculate the percentage of fat in marketing ads and on labels.
Remember to always calculate on weight and not percentage. For example, milk
chocolate has 54% of calories coming from fats, but you need to calculate for one piece,
2 pieces or the entire chocolate bar. Expect deception from advertising and the food
companies. There is talk now from the federal government to change the present
system of food labelling.
How to Calculate Percentage of Calories from Fat, Carbohydrates and Protein
Step 1
Obtain the amount of fat, carbohydrates and protein in a serving of the food. The
nutritional label should provide these values in units of grams.
Step 2
Derive the number of calories in the food that come from fat. Each gram of fat provides
about 9 calories, so the number of calories that come from fat is 9 x F, where F is the
number of grams of fat. Assume the food has 11 g of fat. The food, therefore, provides 9
x 11 = 99 calories from fat.
Step 3