Food Portions On The Rise

It is captivating to note that over the past join of years, food portions have been increasing, both in the fast food outlets and on our evening meal tables. In fact, it is shocking to see how much individuals are captivating these days, knowingly or unknowingly. Most of the time, it's the latter.

In the fast food industry, you will find meals such as double cheeseburger, large fries and many others which are consumed by one someone at one time. Actually, sometimes, they are put on specials and you're told you'll get "double" for your money. But is that absolutely worth it, when you weigh the pros against the cons. The benefit of this is that you'll obviously have more to eat after having paid less. But what about those extra calories that you're packing in? Not to mention the sodium, total fat, cholesterol, saturated fat and sometimes trans fat that you're piping into your system. The worst thing about it is that most population rarely do adequate corporal performance to burn off these calories so it ends up being fat, just take a look at a join of people's waistlines and you'll see what we're talking about, or closer to home, your own waistline!

The Food Pyramid

The thing is, although food portions and food serving sizes have been increasing over the years, one would assume that perhaps population are more active physically. It's absolutely the opposite. This is one generation where most population lead sedentary lifestyles hence the prevalence of diseases such as obesity, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, etc. Before we go any further, we'll just briefly define food quantum and food serving size. Food quantum is the number of food that you as an personel select to eat at any one meal. Food serving size is used mostly to presuppose the food facts of foods and help you collate the nutritional value of similar foods. It's not necessarily the recommended serving size although sometimes it can be equal to it.

One of the things that can help you watch your food portions is to understand the food pyramid diagram or the My Plate diagram. It gives you an insight on how much from each food group you're supposed to eat in a day, also depending on your performance levels. This has been one helpful way to watch how much you're eating. an additional one way would be keeping a food diary. You only have to keep it the first few days whilst you're adjusting to your new salutary eating lifestyle. The good thing is that it will help you keep track of what you've eaten and you can check against the food pyramid diagram to see where you've over-done it, where you're lacking and where you did well. In no time you will be an master and won't necessarily have to log into your food diary.

Reducing your food portions is obviously not an easy thing to do. If you still feel hungry after eating, you'd rather have some fruits or vegetables. This is because they are nutrient dense. Meaning, they are low in calories as compared to the nutritional benefits they have. So you'll be having less calories with a load of nutrients, vitamins and minerals added to your theory in increasing to leaving you feeling satiated. Now that's one good deal!

Food Portions On The Rise