Carb, protein, and fat for dieting

Question
I am on a diet and i consume about 1200-1600 calories per day most of it in the form of carbs >150g and proteins about 100g do i have to eat food containing fat so i could lose fat or is it ok if i ate only about 10-15 g fat per day.

Answer
Hi Hany,

Different diets suggest different fat : carb : protein ratios. Depending on your reason for dieting, your ration might look right or wrong. Since your diet is definitely high-carb, high protein, you might want to balance it out using the Zone ratio.

The "Zone" is defined by Dr Barry Sears, the Zone Diet founder, as a metabolic state in
which the human body operates most efficiently This metabolic state can be achieved by correct proportion of carbohydrates, fats, and protein in you every meal
The Zone Diet is a 40 percent carbohydrate, 30 percent protein and 30 percent fat program developed to insure the proper the insulin to glucagon ratio Why?

Any food that you eat works for or against the two major hormones, insulin and glucagon These hormones do a lot of important work but perhaps the most important is maintaining energy flow in the body Their interplay determines whether the body stores or spends (burn) calories but there's much more to the diet's benefits

The 40-30-30 equilibrium results in a decrease of insulin-glucagon ratio, which in its
turn causes production of "good" superhormones eicosanoids According to the Zone theory, eicosanoids are responsible for the diet's  health benefits.

However, among scientists, there's no consensus about the proper ratios and the role of fat is seen as much more important that in the Zone diet.

Read more about diet ratios:
http://dietandbody.com/metabolic_syndrome//?page_id=8

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