Portion size me. Eating fast food and losing weight?

Portion SIZE Me – Kankakee Daily Journal

Here’s an article about 2 people who ate fast food for a month and were able to lose weight and lower their cholesterol.? The key is making healthy choices and not always supersizing to the biggest meal because it’s only 50 cents.

Here’s another tip about portions at home:

Stay-skinny tip

If you’re packing on the pounds, open the
kitchen cabinet and take a long, hard look at your china and flatware.
Big bowls and big spoons cause people to eat bigger portions of ice
cream, a new study has found.

The research, to be published in
the September issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine,
reported that doubling the size of bowls increased the amount of ice
cream people served themselves by 31 percent. Offering them a larger
ice cream scoop increased the amount they dished out by 14.5 percent.

So if you want to eat less, use smaller plates and smaller bowls. Four
ounces of food on an 8-ounce plate looks like a decent portion. But 4
ounces on a 10-ounce plate looks like hardly a start.

Source: Los Angeles Time

-Adam

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