Services – Diets for Gastroenterological Medicine

100 Gram Fat Diet for 72 Hour Fecal Fat Collection

You are about to undertake a fecal fat collection. In order to be accurate, you must consume a high fat diet. If you are going to have a 72-hour fat collection, we recommend that you start the high fat diet 2 days before you are going to start collecting the stool. For those 2 days and 3 days that you are collecting the stools you should eat as follows:

1. Two eggs in the morning, two slices of toast spread with butter and a glass of whole milk.
2. For lunch have another glass of milk and all beef hamburger or equivalent.
3. For dinner you should have a beef or chicken dinner and a fatty dessert like a bowl of ice cream.

This needs to be done for 2 days prior to the stool collection and during the stool collection.

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