Portion Control: Use Smaller Tableware

July 31st, 2006

If you’ve been to H3I, you have heard a lot about portion control.  Now there’s a study reported in HealthDay (yes, research even on this) that says if you use smaller dishes, you will tend to eat smaller portions.  And smaller portions is a good thing.

Lead author Brian Wansink of Cornell University said “doubling the size of someone’s bowl increased how [food] much people took by 31 percent.”  If you are a member of the clean plate club like most of us are, that’s a 31 percent increase in calories, too.

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