Susan Powter's fat formula
Savithri
In article <1993Mar17...@nickel.laurentian.ca>, s270...@nickel.laurentian.ca writes:
|> Hello
|>
|> I was watching a bit of Susan Powter's infomercial, 'stop
|> the insanity', which is about loosing weight and getting
|> fit. She told her audience about her 'fat formula' which
|> supposedly tells you the percentage of fat in a certain
|> food. She remarked that the food industry is lying to us
|> about the amount of fat in food. For example, if a frozen
|> dinner has 6.3 grams of fat and a total of 256 calories, she
|> calculates the percentage of fat with the following formula:
|>
|> ( 6.3 * 9 / 256 ) * 100 = 22%
|> I do not know why she multiplies it by 9. Can anyone
|> explain the validity of this?
|>
|> Thank you
|> John Reynolds
|> S270...@nickel.laurentian.ca
The factor 9 is that there are about nine calories
to a gram of fat (as opposed to 4 calories to a
gram of carbohydrate). I don't know why she claims
that it is a lie (unless she knows more than that mentioned
above). SO out of 256 calories, (6.3X9) 56.7 caloris are
from fat which translates to about 22% fat.
Some people recommend that any food you consume
should preferably NOT contain more than 20-25% of its
calories from fat.
Hope this helps!
Savithri
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LEEANN WENTZELL
>From: s270...@nickel.laurentian.ca
>Subject: Susan Powter's fat formula
>Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 17:28:54 GMT
>Hello
>I was watching a bit of Susan Powter's infomercial, 'stop
>the insanity', which is about loosing weight and getting
>fit. She told her audience about her 'fat formula' which
>supposedly tells you the percentage of fat in a certain
>food. She remarked that the food industry is lying to us
>about the amount of fat in food. For example, if a frozen
>dinner has 6.3 grams of fat and a total of 256 calories, she
>calculates the percentage of fat with the following formula:
> ( 6.3 * 9 / 256 ) * 100 = 22%
>I do not know why she multiplies it by 9. Can anyone
>explain the validity of this?
>Thank you
>John Reynolds
>S270...@nickel.laurentian.ca
Fat has 9 cals/gram. So 6.3 grams fat X 9 cals/g = total fat calories.
Divide by the total calories of the serving (in this case 256) and multiply
by 100 gives you % fat calories. The "lie" she mentions is that
manufacturers often use % fat by weight i.e. if you have an 85g portion of
chips and get 30g of fat, then the chips are only 30/85 X 100 = 35% fat by
weight, although they are 30g X 9 cal/g / 450 cal total X 100 = 60% fat by
calories!
Lee Ann Wentzell "Her ego wrote out cheques incredibly fast
Biology Department But her personality didn't have the cash..."
Acadia University The Northern Pikes
Wolfville, NS, CAN
Mike D. Kail
|>
|> I was watching a bit of Susan Powter's infomercial, 'stop
|> the insanity', which is about loosing weight and getting
|> fit. She told her audience about her 'fat formula' which
|> supposedly tells you the percentage of fat in a certain
|> food. She remarked that the food industry is lying to us
|> about the amount of fat in food. For example, if a frozen
|> dinner has 6.3 grams of fat and a total of 256 calories, she
|> calculates the percentage of fat with the following formula:
|>
|> ( 6.3 * 9 / 256 ) * 100 = 22%
|> I do not know why she multiplies it by 9. Can anyone
|> explain the validity of this?
|>
|> Thank you
|> John Reynolds
|> S270...@nickel.laurentian.ca
1 gram of FAT == 9 calories so if you take ((FATgrams * 9)/calories) *100
you get the % of FAT in the meal...hence her formula.
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Doug.Gilliam
>Hello
>
>I was watching a bit of Susan Powter's infomercial, 'stop
>the insanity', which is about loosing weight and getting
>fit. She told her audience about her 'fat formula' which
>supposedly tells you the percentage of fat in a certain
>food. She remarked that the food industry is lying to us
>about the amount of fat in food. For example, if a frozen
>dinner has 6.3 grams of fat and a total of 256 calories, she
>calculates the percentage of fat with the following formula:
>
> ( 6.3 * 9 / 256 ) * 100 = 22%
>I do not know why she multiplies it by 9. Can anyone
>explain the validity of this?
>
I think it's because each gram of fat has 9 calories. This makes sense
because 6.3 * 9 gives the number of calories from fat so to get percent
fat you divide calories from fat by total calories then multiply by 100.
Doug Gilliam
>Thank you
>John Reynolds
>S270...@nickel.laurentian.ca
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Eric Hansen
>I was watching a bit of Susan Powter's infomercial, 'stop
>the insanity', which is about loosing weight and getting
>fit. She told her audience about her 'fat formula' which
>supposedly tells you the percentage of fat in a certain
>food. She remarked that the food industry is lying to us
>about the amount of fat in food. For example, if a frozen
>dinner has 6.3 grams of fat and a total of 256 calories, she
>calculates the percentage of fat with the following formula:
> ( 6.3 * 9 / 256 ) * 100 = 22%
>I do not know why she multiplies it by 9. Can anyone
>explain the validity of this?
I think the idea is that the "9" is the number of calories in 1 gram
of fat. Whether or not this is entirely accurate, I don't know. I kind
of thought fat was more like 14 calories per gram, but I'm not sure.
Eric
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