PEDIATRICS Vol. 89 No. 3 March 1992, pp. 537-544
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II. The Population Approach: Nutrition Recommendations for Healthy Children and Adolescents

The primary goals of the dietary recommendations are to limit intakes of SFA to less than 10 percent of total calories, to provide sufficient calories for growth and development without promoting obesity, and to limit cholesterol to less than 300 mg/day. These may be achieved more easily if the intake of total fat is restricted to no more than 30 percent of calories.