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Fat Recommendations
To calculate the grams of fat you should eat each day to facilitate weight loss while staying healthy, take 20 and 35 percent of your total calorie needs—as recommended by the Institute of Medicine-- and divide by nine, since fat provides nine calories per gram. For example, you’d need to eat 22 to 39 grams of fat when consuming a 1,000-calorie diet, 27 to 47 grams when following a 1,200-calorie meal plan, 31 to 54 grams when consuming 1,400 calories and 36 to 62 grams of fat each day when consuming a 1,600-calorie weight loss diet.
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