Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Stacy's Pita Chips to Syl

Sand calculated the percentage of calories due to fat. I calculated the percentage of fat in a portion by weight.

They are two completely different measures but both have the same objective which is to minimize fat.

For example, a portion of Stacy's pita chips weight 40 grams and it contains 6 grams of fat. There the percentage of fat by weight is 6/40*100 = 15%.

Most of what I eat is very low fat or no fat (rice, veggies, chicken, fish, etc). I found that I could use a simple approach which was to limit my "higher but still low fat foods" to those that have less than 15% fat by weight. It is a much simpler calculation than calculating percentage of oil/fat by calories.

For 15 years or so I limited myself to small portions of snack foods with less than 10% fat by weight. Later, I figured out that specific oils were triggers e.g. oils/fat such as cottonseed, palm, soybean and most hydrogenated oils/fats. Eventually I figured out that I could tolerate olive, canola and sunflower oils better and therefore I was able to increase by oil intake to snack foods etc with 15% oil by weight for those foods containing oils I could tolerate.

Overall, my daily oil/fat intake as a percentage of calories is well below 25%. I would guess that it is closer to 15%

PS - I found that while the daily intake of fat is important a more important factor from the point of view of triggers is the amount of fat consumed at a point in time. For me a very small portion of high fat food can cause problems even though my daily intake of fat was quite low. Oh the things you learn living with this disease for 30+ years

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Edited by Syl (08/22/06 04:57 PM)

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