Thursday, August 18, 2011

Low-Fat Diet - Probably Not What They Intended

So, yes, apparently I have a gall bladder. Most of us do, and probably most of us have as little clue about it as I did, until mine started to complain.

The short version of the story is that I'm on a low-fat diet - specifically, 20% of calories from fat - for at least a month. Since food and nutrition are enthusiasms of mine already, this has led to some interesting number-crunching.

Here's a typical Saturday night dinner at our house, of steak and potatoes, and a vegetable cooked in a little olive oil and garlic. We cook pretty healthy already, and my analysis says it would be 30% calories from fat, which is a healthy amount according to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Food Serving Calories Quantity Total
Fat grams
Beef, lean (round, loin, flank) 2.5 ounces 135 2 270
12
Potato 1/2 cup 68 2 136
0
Broccoli, raw 1/2 cup 15 2 30
0
Vegetable and olive oil 1 teaspoon 40 1 40
4.5
% calories from fat: 31%





Now, here's the way I think I'm probably not supposed to reduce it to 20% calories from fat. I've added just one new line:
Food Serving Calories Quantity Total
Fat grams
Beef, lean (round, loin, flank) 2.5 ounces 135 2 270
12
Potato 1/2 cup 68 2 136
0
Broccoli, raw 1/2 cup 15 2 30
0
Vegetable and olive oil 1 teaspoon 40 1 40
4.5
Wine 4 ounces 97 3 290.4
0
% calories from fat: 19%





That's right, drinking half a bottle of wine fixes the problem!

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