Super-sized portions aren’t exclusive to fast food

Portions at popular chain restaurants are often super-sized servings, even when they are offered as
a single entree or regular-sized meal, a new report says.

Many hamburgers, steaks, bagels and pasta entrees are at least two times bigger than the government’s definition of a serving, according to nutritionists with the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Washington-D.C.-based consumer group.

This is a trend that diet experts have been noticing for years, and it hasn’t gotten any better, the group says. “The super-sized portions are super-sizing our bodies,” says Bonnie Liebman, the center’s nutrition director.

“With two-thirds of adults and one-third of kids obese or overweight, you’d think restaurants would
shrink their portion sizes, but they haven’t, ” she says.

“Eating half of what the restaurant serves is often just about right. Half is the new whole.”

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