Are 15 grams of fat a day a reasonable total for a person on a lowfat diet?
No. On a lowfat diet, people usually get from 15 to 30 percent of their overall calorie intake from different kinds of fat. Depending on your size, age, activity level, and other personal factors affecting your calorie needs, you could eat from 27 to 90 grams of fat on a lowfat diet according to these percentages. If you ate only 15 grams of fat a day, you may not develop a fat-related deficiency this usually occurs at lower intake levels, depending on the source of fat in your diet but this restricted amount of fat is probably unhealthfully low. Some fat is necessary in our diet because certain vitamins and phytochemicals in vegetables and fruits need fat at the same time to be absorbed properly. Research also suggests that people who are not overly restrictive with fat and use modest amounts of healthy fats like olive and canola oils for cooking and flavoring, often have more nutritious diets because they eat more vegetables. People who severely control fat also tend to skip nuts, wh
