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To monitor the fat in your diet, simply add up the fat grams from the foods you ate during the day. Use the Nutrition Facts label to find out how much fat is in the foods you eat. Remember to choose healthy fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated) and limit unhealthy ones (saturated and trans).

Nutrients by Weight and Percentage of Daily Value (%DV)Fats are listed as "Total Fat" and also broken down so you can see how much is saturated fat, i.e., the kind you especially want to limit. Unfortunately, the label doesn't distinguish between natural sugars, such as those found in fruit, and added sugar.

The government recommends that: men should not eat more than 30g of saturated fat a day. women should not eat more than 20g of saturated fat a day. children should have less.

Determine your estimated calorie needs in the chart below: Physical Activity Level. ... No more than 30% of calories should be from fat, so take the total calories and multiply by 30%. ... Because there are 9 calories in each gram of fat, take calories from fat per day and divide by 9.

Here are a few examples of suggested daily fat ranges for a low fat diet, based on different calorie goals: 1,500 calories: about 50 grams of fat per day. 2,000 calories: about 67 grams of fat per day. 2,500 calories: about 83 grams of fat per day.

The dietary reference intake (DRI) for fat in adults is 20% to 35% of total calories from fat. That is about 44 grams to 77 grams of fat per day if you eat 2,000 calories a day. It is recommended to eat more of some types of fats because they provide health benefits.

So if you're following a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet, your target range for total fat is 44 to 78 grams a day. Of that, saturated fat should make up no more than 22 grams. To monitor the fat in your diet, simply add up the fat grams from the foods you ate during the day.

Individual foods may contain more or less fat, but it's easier to control total fat intake if you're aware of the fat content of the foods you eat. To get this percentage, divide calories from fat by total calories (this information appears on the food label) and then multiply by 100.

In a healthy diet, about 30 percent of total daily calories should come from fat. This means eating about 50 to 80 grams of fat each day. Fat gives the body energy, too, but the body changes only about 10 percent of fat into glucose. By itself, fat doesn't have much impact on blood sugar.