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Sizing up servings: Restaurant portions have grown over the years.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
"The food was so bad, and the portions were so small."
Now there's a joke that will date you. Because no matter the quality of a restaurant meal these days, you can lay odds there's plenty of it.
A goodly part of America is living proof that portions, particularly portions in restaurants, are bigger than they used to be _ much to the dismay of nutritionists and other health professionals who know the American predilection for cleaning our plates.
In December, a surgeon general's report warned that obesity rates in the United States had reached epidemic levels. Sixty percent of Americans are now classified overweight, and obesity may soon pass tobacco as the leading preventable cause of death.
The generous portions at restaurant meals, which have become nearly a daily occurrence for many of us, are part of our national weight problem.
Last month, the Center for Science in the Public Interest began making the talk-show rounds with its new book, "Restaurant Confidential" (Workman, $12.95), a fat-gram-by-fat-gram expose of how easily consumers can down 3,000 calories in just one restaurant meal.
In most of the country, ...
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