UNC Study Confirms That Food Portion Sizes
Increased In US Over Two Decades

PIGGING OUT!
Americans are eating too much food. The shifts in where people are eating, as well as the types of food and how much, are critical. Portion sizes varied by food source, with the largest being consumed at fast-food establishments and the smallest at restaurants. Between 1977 and 1996, portion sizes increased for salty snacks, desserts, soft drinks, fruit drinks, French fries, hamburgers, cheeseburgers and Mexican food. Dietary patterns are rapidly shifting in the United States, and these changes are important contributors to the growing epidemic of obesity and diabetes facing American. Full story at
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/01/030122072329.htm

CTM COMMENT: Yet more proof that our ailing health is aided and abetted by self-gratification. The return of personal responsibility in healthcare would herald a healthy, new dawn!