Average PUFA intake of Amerians

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et al,

I've read your recent EFA report and I've also been following the

recent threads on PUFA intake. If I'm not mistaken (can't confirm

because I'm away from home and don't have your report with me) you

reported that the average intake of PUFA in the U.S. is somewhere

around 7-9% of calories.

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.

Thanks,

Chris