Serving Sizes
Portions and Serving Sizes
Are you gaining weight? If
so, you're eating too many calories and one reason for this may be your
serving sizes. You may be helping yourself to larger serving sizes than
those recommended on the food label.
For instance, pour out your
usual serving size of breakfast cereal and measure it! Then, compare it
to the label serving size. Chances are, you're eating two or three times
the amount on the label.
Study of Serving Sizes and
Calories
One diet study (Journal of
the American College of Nutrition, June, 2001) found the amount of cereal
eaten by adults was approximately twice the serving size listed on the
box. That's double the calories. So if you're wondering why you're gaining
weight, this may be one place calories are sneaking into your meals.
For Optimum Weight Control
Check Label Serving Sizes
It's easy to pile on the
calories if your serving sizes are too large. Eating an extra 90 calories
in your cereal bowl every morning adds nearly 33,000 extra calories per
year - the equivalent of 9 pounds of body weight. Over ten years that's
a whopping 90 pounds, just from eating a little extra cereal! So check
the serving size on the food label and follow the recommendations.
For calorie details of 2500
Foods, see Calories
in Foods
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