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    This document discusses how portion sizes have increased over the past 20 years, contributing to weight gain. It provides examples showing that portions of common foods today contain significantly more calories than 20 years ago, with soda portions containing over 400 extra calories and hamburgers over 200 extra calories. The document encourages making people aware of subtle ways portion sizes can undermine weight control efforts and providing strategies to avoid common pitfalls like oversized portions prevalent in culture.

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    This document discusses how portion sizes have increased over the past 20 years, contributing to weight gain. It provides examples showing that portions of common foods today contain significantly more calories than 20 years ago, with soda portions containing over 400 extra calories and hamburgers over 200 extra calories. The document encourages making people aware of subtle ways portion sizes can undermine weight control efforts and providing strategies to avoid common pitfalls like oversized portions prevalent in culture.

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    Meal Portion

    Control
    National Nutrition Month
    PMC Clinical Dietetics Department
    March 4th, 2015

    Research in the Field


    Because oversized portions are
    pervasive in our culture, from
    restaurants to supermarkets to vending
    machines, it is important to make people
    aware of the subtle ways in which
    portion size can sabotage even the most
    valiant weight control efforts, and to give
    them strategies for avoiding some
    common pitfalls
    CDC Website:
    http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition/pdf/porti
    on_size_research.pdf

    20 years
    ago

    500 kcal

    333 kcal

    Today

    1,025 kcal
    525 CALORIES DIFFERENCE

    590 kcal
    257 CALORIE DIFFERENCE

    20 years ago

    210 kcals
    2.4 oz.
    Today

    140 kcals
    3-in. diameter
    Today

    610 kcals
    6.9 oz.
    400 calorie
    difference

    350 kcals
    6-in. diameter
    210 calorie difference

    20 years ago

    Today

    165 calorie
    difference

    85 kcal
    6.5 oz.

    250 kcals
    20 oz.

    CALORIES IN = CALORIES OUT


    Walking leisurely for 1.10 hours will
    burn approximately 400 kcals.
    *Based in a 160 lb. person

    Riding a bike for 1.25 hours will


    burn approximately 500 kcals
    *Based on 160 lb. person

    http://www.fda.gov/Food/IngredientsPackagingLabeling/LabelingNutrition/ucm079449.htm

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