Size up Your Portions

[QuilterMom]

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Size up Your Portions
Serving Sizes Have Run Amok in This Country
A quesadilla in Mexico is 5 inches in diameter and has 540 calories. In the United States, it's 10 inches and has 1,200 calories. The first bagels made in America had 115 calories. Today's bagel: 350.

To watch your portions you need to know what an average serving size looks like. The American Diabetes Association offers the visual guidelines below to help you fight portion distortion.

It sounds too simple, but serve less food on your plate. Studies show that we eat in direct proportion to how much we're given. Other suggestions:


Use a smaller plate.
Use a small juice glass for juice and soft drinks.
Eat twice as many vegetables as rice, potatoes, bread, or pasta.
Eat slowly.
Visual Serving Size
Tennis Ball 1/2 cup fruit or vegetables
Deck of Cards 3 oz. of meat, fish or chicken
Your Thumb 1 oz. of cheese
Your Fist 1 cup of milk or yogurt

TO LEARN MORE: www.diabetes.org. Under Weight Loss & Exercise, select Weight Loss. Click on Weight Loss Matters Tip Sheets, then Food & Portion Size.

[Vannie]

You are not going to believe this. I was just in my kitchen reading the side of my Post Shredded Wheat box and it mentioned American Diabetes Association but did not give the link. I was getting ready to look for it online, but decided to check out new comments on FV first. Thanks.