As our "eyes" have gotten bigger, our bellies have followed.
- A primary reason Americans are getting fatter is our outsized view of a single serving of food
- Obesity is responsible for about 300,000 deaths a year, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.
- Super-sized foods help create super-sized people
- Most Americans grossly overestimate a normal serving size.
- Particularly treacherous: giant servings in restaurants. You ca get more than a whole day's calories in just one serving of some fast foods. One example: Steakhouses commonly serve cheese fries (French fries coated with cheese and ranch dressing) in a 4-cup servingt that provides 3,000 calories, two thirds o them from fat
- The more you eat out, the more calories you eat and the fatter you get
- No, a serving of cereal isn't whatever fits in yoru big cereal bowl. It's 1 ounce--about the size of a tennis ball or hockey puck, Feast your eyes on the surprisingly small official serving sized:
- Tennis ball = 1 serving of fruit or vegetalbes
- 2 cassette tapes = 2 servings of bread (so relatively one slice)
- Computer mouse = 1 medium potatoe
- Deck of cards = 1 serving meat, chicken, or fish
- Hockey puck = 1 serving pasta, rice, cereal
- Four dice = 1 serving of cheese (1 ounce)
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