National Nutrition Month

Is normal portion size increasing your size? Clearly today what we think of as "normal size" has gotten bigger over the past 20 years. When a main dish in a restaurant now feeds two or three people, or a single snack bag of chips actually holds several servings, could be adding to the reason that so many of us are overweight. Twenty years ago a normal cheeseburger was 333 calories whereas today a "normal" cheeseburger if now a whopping 590 calories.
Dietitians offer these handy cues for realistic serving sizes of popular foods. Each one of these food items is one serving:
1/2 cup of cooked rice or spaghetti = 1/2 baseball
1 baked potato = a average size fist
3 oz. of meat,chicken = a deck of cards
3 oz. of grilled fish = a checkbook

These food comparisons may seem like appetizer sizes but these so called "normal portions" could be what is adding to excess weight problems. A simple solution to our weight problems today should include not only limiting the portion size of what we eat but also to increase our intake of fresh fruits and veggies!