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Food for thought: what's a serving?
You've cut back on red meat and snacks to achieve a healthy diet and maintain your weight. But the number on the scale keeps creeping up. What's wrong?
Maybe your portions. Supersized servings that make restaurant dinners look like a bargain have distorted our sense of serving sizes and are packing pounds on the American physique. The 12-ounce sirloin featured at your favorite steakhouse is the equivalent of four servings of meat as defined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The giant muffin you grab at the convenience store for your morning commute? Three servings, not one. While fat consumption from foods like whole milk and some red meats has declined over the past 20 years, serving sizes have increased, accounting for about 150 additional calories per day. That theoretically works out to 15 extra pounds per year.
For a balanced daily diet, the USDA recommends 6 to 11 servings of grains, 2 to 3 servings of protein (from meat, beans, nuts, or eggs), 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables, and 2 to 3 servings of dairy ...
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- News wire article from: UPI NewsTrack July 19, 2008 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Supermarket News Crispens, Jonna June 1, 1998 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Vegetarian Times Christofferson, Terry April 1, 1997 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Nutrition Action Healthletter April 1, 2006 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) December 1, 2003 700+ words
...sizes to Federal standards and found the former exceeds the latter by as much as eight times. Some food and beverage serving sizes are between two and five times larger than when they were first introduced.
