Nutritional Calculations : How to Calculate the Fat Percentage in Daily Food Intake

To see whether your diet provides the right ratios and kinds of fats you need, keep a food diary and either check the food labels or look up each food on the USDA National Food Database. Learn how to track your fats with this free video on nutritional calculations.

Expert: Charlotte Lawson
Bio: Charlotte Lawson, a licensed and registered dietitian and nutritionist, works with the Florida Department of Health's nutrition division as a senior public health nutritionist.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

Series Description: Nutritional calculations help you understand the meanings behind food labels so you can avoid excessive fat, cholesterol and carbs and take control of your health. Get expert tips from a registered and licensed dietitian in this free video series.

[FlynnFish]

Nothing in my house says anything about calories from fat.

[FredBTs]

So to count fat eat processed foods so you can read the label?

[vickyvishwakarma]

Hello mem
I am studying in clinical nutrition and dietetics.

[jairbear]

*"Whatever, I'm getting cheese fries"*

- Regina George

[Shigren]

okay so something people don't think about are the overall averages. For example a footlong spicy Italian subway sub is 960 calories. Yes over 90% of it is from fat, but the average calororie intake for an average human is 2500 per day. that means if you have 2 foot-long subs a day you average at 2000 calories a day. less than the average. Stop fearing meat! Stop fearing bread! Seriously, they are staples of the human diet. Why do you think every single civilization on earth has created their own form of bread and meat sandwitch?