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!