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

[whatbox.livejournal.com]

I'm grateful that you are not the only person I know who'd read that and of all the implications, notice the math error immediately.

My personal filters only picked up, "No wonder trying to eat properly is still so discouraging. God, the food really is increasing in quantity."

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

If only the food were increasing in nutritional quality, rather than just quantity. :)