Re: Average PUFA intake of Amerians

[Guest guest]

> However, in " The Skinny on Fats " by Enig & Fallon they say modern

> diets contain as high as 30% of calories from PUFA. They also say

> elsewhere that PUFA is tied with HFCS as the #2 source of calories in

> the American diet, behind refined flour.

>

> Obviously this is a huge discrepancy (7-9% and 30%) and I'm wondering

> if you could shed some light on it.

Interesting. Several sources I've read say 6-8% or somewhere around

there for an average. Sounds like you're citing the max of the range,

so there's isn't any obvious conflict. I guess it depends on how

common 30% of calories as PUFA is. Since the average fat intake is

40% of calories and even most vegetable oils are not 75% PUFA, I doubt

that is very common. I think it would be a lot more common to see

people who eat 30% of their calories as vegetable oil, a smaller

proportion of which would be PUFA.

Chris

[Guest guest]

Ah. Perhaps Fallon & Enig said 30% of calories from vegetable oil and

I misinterpreted and thought they meant PUFA. I'll have to go back

and read it again.

Either way, it's far too high!

Thanks for the response, Chris.

Chris

[Guest guest]

On 5/20/08, chriskjezp <chriskresser@...> wrote:

> Ah. Perhaps Fallon & Enig said 30% of calories from vegetable oil and

> I misinterpreted and thought they meant PUFA. I'll have to go back

> and read it again.

>

> Either way, it's far too high!

Any percent of calories from high-PUFA vegetable oil is too high. ;-)

Chris