Fat

By JOHN B on Jun 20, 2008 | Reply

A calorie is a calorie no matter what the source.
However it is the calorie concentration which can affect the total calorie intake .
carbohydrate and protein each produce 4 cals/gram
fat produces 9 cals/gram

If you take too many calories from whatever source they are stored as fat

By Robert S on Jun 21, 2008 | Reply

It’s important to figure out how many of the calories you’re getting come from fat. U.S. dietary guidelines recommend that the average person gets no more than 30% of all his or her daily calories from fat. But food labels don’t always show the percentage of fat in a food. It is easy to calculate, though. Divide the number of calories from fat by the number of total calories and multiply by 100.

So fat makes quite a difference when it comes to total calories in a food.

But let’s face it, who’s going to choose a heaping bowl of cooked carrots over ice cream on a hot summer day? It all comes down to making sensible food choices most of the time. The goal is to make trade-offs that balance a higher-fat food with foods that are lower in fat to keep the fat intake at 30% for the day. So if you really want that ice cream, it’s OK once in a while - as long as you work in some lower-fat foods, like carrots, that day.

By SubJ on Jun 24, 2008 | Reply

Answer to ur question is built in ur question itself. What counts is the total calory content.