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low-fat diets  

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  • A typical American diet contains somewhere between 35 to 40 percent of calories from fat. The 2005 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that healthy adults keep total dietary fat intake between 20 to 35 percent of calories from fat. [Source: Encyclopedia of Obesity; Low-Fat Diets]

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