Why Nutritionists have a Hard Time Beating Obesity

[joshwriting]

Portion sizes growing with American waistlines

Food servings are bigger than 20 years ago, but most unaware, study says

All well and good, right?

A 1994 informal survey found that the standard plate size in the restaurant industry grew in the early 1990s, from 10 inches to 12.

“That holds 25 percent more food,” Schwartz said. “That really makes a difference in how much our plates can hold and how much we eat from them.”

New math?

Comments

[ratesjul.livejournal.com]

Hmmm

(pi)*5^2 = 78.5398...
(pi)*6^2 = 113.0973...

78.5398/113.0973 = .694

The bigger plate would seem to be 1.44 times the area of the other.

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Ha, that's better - I knew I was forgetting my geometry! And then we can get into how much volume of food one can pile upward on a plate, getting the 3-D aspect into it.

[joshwriting.livejournal.com]

right. PhD in nutrition is truly Piled Higher and Deeper!