Sentences with phrase «percent of the calories»

Currently the FDA claims that the term healthy may be used only for products with 1 gram or less of saturated fat per 40 grams, and no more than 15 percent of calories from saturated fat.

Percent of Calories from: Fat 35 % Carbs 40 % Protein 29 %

The way our bodies are designed 70 percent of the calories you burn each day are solely to support basic bodily functions.

In addition, the articles cites that Americans are eating more sugar than ever, and that the sweet stuff accounts for 16 percent of all calories consumed.

Rice is incredibly important part of our diet in Bangladesh, providing more than 70 percent of our calories every day on average.

«The nutritional balance I have found to be most effective for weight loss is a reduced calorie diet with 35 to 40 percent of the calories coming from protein.»

The tenderloin, however, is one of the leaner cuts, with 75 percent of its calories coming from protein.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (America's basic nutrition policy) recommends that people consume no more than about 10 percent of calories (12 teaspoons in a 2,000 - calorie diet) in the form of refined sugars.

That's far less than the current average of 13 percent of calories.

And, of course, some people, especially teen - aged boys, consume as much as 25 percent of their calories from refined sugars.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (America's basic nutrition policy), American Heart Association, and other health authorities recommend that people consume no more than about 3 to 8 percent of calories in the form of refined sugars.

Although proteins help with muscle building, only 15 - 20 percent of all calories need to come from proteins.

Approximately 50 to 60 percent of these calories should come from complex carbohydrates, which include non-processed foods such as whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables.

This maximum fat level should be in effect within two to four years and ultimately reduced to 30 percent of calories.

Those say that no more than 30 percent of the calories in a meal should come from fat, and no more than 10 percent from saturated fat.

The Department of Agriculture should set nutrition standards for school lunches, including a limit of 35 percent of calories from fat, the group said.

The change means total fat will be limited to 30 percent of the calories in the weekly menu, Lale said, and saturated fat must make up less than 10 percent of total calories.

Too often, however, parents fall back on cold cuts like bologna and salami, which are extremely high in fat (85 percent of their calories come from fat), most of which is artery - damaging saturated fat.

In general, foods sold at school could not provide more than 35 percent of their calories through fat or sugar.

The new standards, slated to be fully in place by the 1996 - 1997 school year, call for school lunches to conform to the national Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which include such things as limiting fat to 30 percent of calories, using sodium in moderation and providing a selection of fruits, vegetables and grain products.

Chicago is one of the first cities to have its schools conform with nutritional guidelines that call for no more than 30 percent of calories from fat, 10 percent or less from saturated fats, plus increases in vegetables and grains.

restrict toys to meals that contain fewer than 500 calories and 600 milligrams of sodium, and in which less than 35 percent of the calories come from fat (making exceptions for nuts, seeds, peanut butter or other nut - based butters).

(The sticks get 31.5 percent of their calories from fat and cost 28 cents each).

Studies have shown that fibers from vegetable and fruit skin blocks absorption of up to three or four percent of calories consumed.

In the mid-1990s, Congress decided that school meals should comply with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which specified that no more than 30 percent of calories should come from fat.

Currently, about 38 percent of calories in the lunches come from fat and the meals contain more sodium than recommended.

On Wednesday Haas, who heads the USDA's Food and Consumer Services, announced new regulations that eventually will limit fat to 30 percent of calories and saturated fat to 10 percent in what she called «a reinventing of the school meals program.»

It's hardly surprising, then, that a 2010 study by scientists at the National Cancer Institute found that nearly 40 percent of the calories American children eat come from empty calories — cookies, sodas, pizza and the rest.

Those standards require that all competitive items, with the exception of a la carte entr es, be limited to 200 calories per item, with less than 35 percent of those calories coming from fat, less than 20 percent from saturated fat, and less than 30 percent from sugars, with exceptions for fruit and low - fat yogurt.

Lipids may only make up about 4 percent of breast milk, but they provide 50 percent of the calories that your baby gets from your milk.

In addition to containing fewer than 600 calories, San Francisco's new rules demand that fast food kids meals include fruit and vegetables, unless served at breakfast, and that they have less than 640 mg sodium, less than 35 percent of calories from fat and a beverage that gets less than 10 percent of its calories from added sweeteners.

One hundred percent of the calories in a cola drink are derived from sugar versus about 60 percent in chocolate milk; however, the 16 ounce serving of Nesquik Chocolate Milk kids typically drink contains a teeth - aching 58 grams of sugar.

Three groups of middle - aged mice (about a year old) were studied: one group ate a normal diet, in which fewer than 30 percent of calories came from fat, while two others were fed high - calorie diets in which 60 percent of the calories came from fat.

16 Cutting saturated fat intake to the recommended 10 percent of your calories will prolong your life, but only by a few months at most, researchers found.

The modified diet provided just 10 percent of its calories from carbohydrates, compared with 55 percent of calories from carbohydrates in a control group.

A typical U.S diet provides about 35 percent of its calories from fat.)

A key difference in the typical Nunavik Inuit's diet is that more than 50 percent of the calories in Inuit native foods come from fats.

They estimate that 19 percent of protein and 10 percent of calories in feed for aquatic species are ultimately made available in the human food supply.

Specifically, Ebbeling's group studied three dietary paradigms: an Atkins» low - carb diet (60 percent of calories from fat, 10 percent from carbs); a mixed diet with foods generally low on the glycemic index (40 percent of calories from fat, 40 percent from carbs); and a low - fat diet with a mix of carbohydrates generally high on the glycemic index (20 percent of calories from fat, 60 percent from carbs).

Yet it is vitally important for the global food supply, providing more than 20 percent of the calories and 23 percent of the protein consumed by humans.

Neuroscientist Marise B. Parent of Georgia State University and her colleagues fed 11 adolescent rats a diet in which fructose supplied 60 percent of the calories.

More alarmingly, people who get at least 25 percent of their daily calories from added sugar — or 13 percent of the U.S. population — are almost three times as likely to die from cardiovascular disease than those who get just 10 percent of calories from the sweet stuff.

As in a typical North American diet, 40 percent of the calories come from fat.

Other macaques dined American - style, with a hefty 32 percent of calories from fat and ready access to peanut butter treats.

To examine the regulatory effects of Sestrin 3, the animals were fed a diet with 18 percent of its calories from fat or a high - fat diet with 60 percent of calories from fat.

Rice In Bangladesh and India, poor people receive up to 80 percent of their calories from rice.

Annual crops contribute heavily to the world food system, with three domesticated grains — wheat, maize, and rice — providing 60 percent of the calories humans consume.

The researchers, under the direction of Justin Rhodes of Beckman's NeuroTech Group and professor of psychology at Illinois, studied two groups of mice for two - and - a-half months: one group was fed a diet in which 18 percent of the calories came from fructose, mimicking the intake of adolescents in the United States, and the other was fed 18 percent from glucose.

Male adolescents are the top fructose consumers, deriving between 15 to 23 percent of their calories from fructose — three to four times more than the maximum levels recommended by the American Heart Association.

Wheat is a vital crop, supplying 20 percent of the calories consumed by humans worldwide.