Calories Vs. Fat Calories?

beautifuldiskize
beautifuldiskize Posts: 95
in Food and Nutrition
I hope I don't sound like a complete idiot. Buttttt I don't get it exactly. So when you see something that's say 210 calories and 90 fat calories, does that mean that altogether, you're eating 300 calories? Are the fat calories separate or are they already included in the 210 but they are just letting you know that 90 of the 210 are fat calories?

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  • TimeForMe99
    TimeForMe99 Posts: 309
    210 includes the 90 fat calories. And no, you don't sound like an idiot! Trust me, I work in software support and deal with idiots all day long.
  • beautifuldiskize
    beautifuldiskize Posts: 95
    Haha, thank you!
  • sofielein
    sofielein Posts: 539 Member
    On the food labels they usually show how those 210 are built up, a part of the calories if from fat, another part from carbohydrates, sugar, etc. Your label shows that out of 210, 90 are fat type. (So the rest 120 are made up of other, non-fat calories.)

    I don't know what you're eating, but that much fat - almost like the half of it - sounds quite like a lot...
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,337 Member
    The reason this is included is the thought that fat is bad in and of itself. While trans fats are bad, fat in itself doesn't make you fat, and it questionable in terms of causing cardio vascular disease. Over the past 20+ years the thinking was low fat would solve the obesity problems, but people keep getting fatter and having more heart problems.

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