Brownies aren’t exactly a diet food, but nutritionists for Dairy Council recently
taught Atlantic Dairy Cooperative members how they can splurge on high fat foods
and still keep the calories down.
At Atlantic Dal
Women Learn A Do-It-Yourself
Approach To Balance Fat Budget
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Farming Staff
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
“There is no such thing as a bad
food,” Carolyn Weaver, a nutrition
educator for Dairy Council, told
women who attended the Atlantic
Dairy Cooperative on November
16.
Weaver believes that people
should enjoy the foods they like,
and that they can, if they under
stand fat budgeting.
The Dairy Council recently
developed a fat budgeting program
called Healthy Dividends.
The do-it-yourself plan enables
women to lower or control their
weight by limiting their intake of
fat.
First, they must know how
many fat grams they are allowed to
consume each day. This vanes
according to age and weight. A
40-year-old woman who weights
135 pounds is allowed 75 grams.
Depending on age and ideal
weight, the daily amount of grams
Carolyn Crouse, right, admired the quilts displayed by
Jean Musser at the annual Atlantic Dairy Cooperative meet
ing held at Lancaster Sheraton.
erative
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Carolyn Weaver, nutrition educator for Dairy Council.
Weaver taught women about a new fat budgeting program
called “Healthy Dividends,” which was developed by the
Daf Council.
allow varies from 55 to 90 grams.
In this program, woman should
learn to know standard serving
sizes. “For example: a three-ounce
serving of fried shrimp contains 10
grams of fat. If you eat six ounces.
That means you ’re eating 20 grams
of fat,” Weaver said.
To help the audience understand
the scientific recommendation that
30 percent of calories should be
from fat and 10 percent from satur
ated fat, each person was given 20
‘Fat Bucks” to spend at a buffet
table.
For five “Fat Bucks” a person
could purchase a cube of cheese,
which has five grams of fat. Two
rye crackers cost two “Fat Bucks;”
a brownie costs five “Fat Bucks;”
and potato chips cost 10 “Fat
Bucks.” Fresh vegetables were
free, but the dip to accompany
them cost four “Fat Bucks.”
This on-hands experience
taught the importance of planning
lo eat the grams that will bring the
most pleasure and the most nutri
tion. “It’s possible to stay within
the fat gram guidelines, but not eat
nutritiously.”
For more information on the
Healthy Dividends diet, call the
Dairy Council Camp Hill office at
(215) 322-0450.
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