Mrs. Kirby, 58, is a moderately active woman. She works in the garden almost daily, occasionally walks with her friends, and babysits her three very active young grandchildren every weekend. She eats a fairly standard diet every day: she has cereal with milk and coffee for breakfast, some kind of salad for lunch, and a piece of meat or fish with a healthy helping of veggies for dinner. She usually skips desserts or has just a couple of strawberries. When asked to look at the food labels and calculate her intake of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins in grams over the entire day, on an average day, she came up with the following numbers:
Carbohydrates: 243 g
Fats: 41 g
Proteins: 63 g
Calculate what percentage of Mrs. Kirby's total energy intake came from carbohydrates.
Energy Contribution of Fats
After Mrs. Kirby received nutritional advice, her neighbor asked for her help with calculating the contribution of energy from fats in her diet For a long time, her doctor has been telling her to lower the fat intake below 30% of her total calories, but she does not really know how to do it-much less how to calculate it Mrs. Kirby explained how she did her calculations, and the neighbor showed her her numbers." Together they came up with total calorie intake of 2200 kcal and 63 g of fat. What is the percentage contribution of energy from fat in Mrs. Kirby's neighbor's diet?
a. yes
b. no