# Calories, fat calories, fat grams?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calories-fat-calories-fat-grams/9653>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 3, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calories-fat-calories-fat-grams/9653 "2000-04-03T16:34:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![bradgt33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@bradgt33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bradgt33)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calories-fat-calories-fat-grams/9653/1 "2000-04-03T16:34:00Z")

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Should one be more concerned about calories, calories from fat, or grams of fat, in their diets? Thanks for your help.

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calories-fat-calories-fat-grams/9653/2 "2000-04-04T05:41:00Z")

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Fat grams equate to calories! It’s just less than 10 calories per gram of fat. The recommendation is that fat calories should make up no more than 30% of your total calories. To keep the math simple, you can push it up to say 1/3 your total calories. Thus, if a snack has 300 calories with 150 from fat, that’s more than 1/3 from fat!

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calories-fat-calories-fat-grams/9653/3 "2000-04-03T18:48:00Z")

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