What is the AMDR for fat in the diet?
AMDR for fat in diet is 20-35 percent of total calories for adults per day. This range is important because it helps in risk reduction for developing chronic disease such as heart problems and it ensures the body is provided with essential nutrients. It is critical to have knowledge that fat comprises the highest number of calories per gram (nine) compared to carbohydrates and proteins, which contains four calories per gram (Sacks et al., 2017).
What was your perception of dietary fat before reading this week’s resources?
Before taking this dietary class, my perception was that dietary fat is not good for our health because it contributes towards weight gain and make a person susceptible to other chronic illness. I thought fat in diet should be avoided at all cost. However, I had no idea that there are healthy types of fats such as polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats that play an important role in health.
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How has your perception changed?
After reading resources on dietary, my perception has changed completely. Now am more knowledge of dietary fat. I learned about the “good” cholesterol (HDL) and the “bad” cholesterol (LDL), and this knowledge has enabled me to know how to select healthy types of fat when buying certain types of oil and food. In addition, I learned that dietary fat has enormous effect on health but it all depends on the quantity consumed. Moreover, I leant that fat plays a unique role in human diet thus critical for health. For example, dietary fats are essential for blood clotting, controlling inflammation, brain development, insulation of the body during cold weather, and helps the body in absorption of vitamins A, D, E, and K (Scaks et al., 2017).
Mrs. Smith one-day Menu
Breakfast
8 oz. whole milk –replace with evaporated skim milk.
8 oz. orange juice
2 fried eggs (fried in butter) –eat boiled eggs or egg substitutes
2 slices sourdough toast with 1 tablespoon butter
Snack
1/2 peanut butter and jelly sandwich: 1 slice white bread, 1 tablespoon Skippy peanut butter, 1 tablespoon grape jelly-replace with low in saturated fat products, such as olive oil
Lunch
8 oz. cream of tomato soup
1 oz. potato chips 1 sandwich: 2 oz. turkey, 1 oz. salami, 2 slices white bread, 1-tablespoon mayonnaise –replaced with snip chips
8 oz. grape juice
Snack
6 oz. fruited yogurt, sweetened, whole milk
Dinner
5 oz. dark meat chicken, fried –replace with baked or grilled chicken
1 medium baked potato with 1 tablespoon butter, 1 tablespoon sour cream, and 1 tablespoon bacon, chopped
1/2 cup cooked broccoli with 1-tablespoon butter
8 oz. cola
4 oz. whole milk
Snack
1/2 cup chocolate ice cream
Reference
Sacks, F. M., Lichtenstein, A. H., Wu, J. H., Appel, L. J., Creager, M. A., Kris-Etherton, P. M., ... & Stone, N. J. (2017). Dietary fats and cardiovascular disease: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association. Circulation , 136 (3), e1-e23.
