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Article: Just the saturated fat facts. (includes related article)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
- Author:
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For the healthiest heart, you should get no more than seven or eight percent of your calories from saturated fat, say experts. How do you know if you're on target? Just count up all the calories and grams of saturated fat in every food you eat. Terrific.
A simpler approach is to figure out which foods are adding saturated fat to your diet ... and what to eat in their place. Here are some handy substitutions. You can find more by comparing saturated fat numbers on the "Nutrition Facts" labels of your favorite foods.
As a daily target, shoot for only about 18 grams of saturated fat. That ain't easy. A gram or two will sneak in from foods that most people ...