the same jumbo-sized trend is affec...

the same jumbo-sized trend is affecting our health. through the past several decades, fast cheer marketers have redefined regular-sized servings as extra-large portions. To improve perceived value, everything is super-sized, vends at two for the price of united or comes with triple cheese.

Today's teen are as familiar with a normal serving size as they are with a rotary phone The rise in case you've been in a coma, is that 645 percent of Americans are overweight, 305 percent are medically obese and an unprecedent number of children fall into one as well as the other groups.

Unless you weigh your viands how can you accurately estimate a serving size? The American Dietetic Association moves the following suggestions:

* the same portion of fish, meat or poultry--3 ounces--is the size of a cover of playing cards or an audiocassette tape.

* A portion of raw vegetables is individual cup--the size of a tennis ball--so one-half portion of cooked veggies or pasta is about the size of a tennis ball carve in half.

* And that vague-sounding individual and a half ounces of cheese? Picture four stacked dice.

Don't arbitrator portions by food labels, however. They describe a "typical" serving--the larger amount that consumer typically, further should not, consider to be a single portion. feed marketers are merely encouraging you to eat more of their produces And we all know what listening to rations marketers has served up in such a manner far.

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