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calorie awareness

  • Two plates side by side with chicken, stuffing and green beans to illustrate how serving sizes have increased today compared to 20 years ago

    It is a subtle sneak that happens right under our noses—and on our plates. Over the last few decades, American restaurant portions and packaged foods have quietly ballooned. What we think of as a “normal” single serving today is often large enough to feed two or three people. Nutritionists call this phenomenon portion distortion, and…

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