Bigger is Better! That's a phrase many of us came to believe if we grew up in middle class America: grow up, get a job, get a bigger car, a bigger house and a bigger paycheck than your parents did. Well, at least as far as cars go, many of us have started to change our minds as fuel costs skyrocketed. And now it's time for us to change our minds about the portion sizes we put on our plates.
In our country, we can still find an amazing amount of food for comparatively little money, and that is part of what feeds our weight problems ( pun intended!) The Whopper, the Bacon-ater and the Monster Thickburger are hamburger structures that are almost too big to handle and hundreds of calories more than we need to fuel us for one meal.
Today, I am adding a link to an interactive "quiz" from the CDC.gov website. It's quick, easy, entertaining, and -hopefully- will be a wake-up call about how the drastic super-sizing of the portions we serve ourselves, and are served by the food industry, have contributed to the still-increasing obesity and overweight issues we face today.
Portion Distortion Quizzes, 1 & 2
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