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Trans fats; Saturated fats to less than 10% of calories; Added sugars to less than 10% of calories; Sodium to less than 2.3 g/day (5.8 g of salt/day), including both added table salt and salt in foods; If consumed, use alcohol in moderation and only for adults — up to 1 drink daily for women and 2 drinks daily for men. [23]
The tables below include tabular lists for selected basic foods, compiled from United States Dept. of Agriculture sources.Included for each food is its weight in grams, its calories, and (also in grams,) the amount of protein, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, fat, and saturated fat. [1]
Saturated Mono-unsaturated Poly- ... 40: 7 Breaded chicken sandwich: 20: 39: 32 ... Fats added during cooking or at the table Butter, stick: 63: 29: 3
Harvard researchers analyzed 30 years of data on over 106,000 participants from the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. The study included 70,467 women and 36,464 men.
The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) is a system of nutrition recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) [a] of the National Academies (United States). [1] It was introduced in 1997 in order to broaden the existing guidelines known as Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs, see below).
The first major report appeared in 1963 and the men were followed through until 1981. [13] After fifteen years follow-up, the study confirmed the results of larger studies that reported earlier on the predictive value for heart attack of several risk factors: blood pressure, blood cholesterol level, and cigarette smoking. [13]
A recent UCLA study showed that men with early-stage prostate cancer who followed a diet low in omega-6 and high in omega-3 and took fish oil supplements for a year saw ... high-saturated-fat ...
A saturated fat is a type of fat in which the fatty acid chains have all single bonds between the carbon atoms. A fat known as a glyceride is made of two kinds of smaller molecules: a short glycerol backbone, and fatty acids that each contain a long linear or branched chain of carbon (C) atoms.