Tag: Portions

I wrote this article for the Natural Choice Directory … “How To Live Forever” (your individual mileage MAY vary). See below for link to article. SPOILER ALERT: We’re not going to be able to live forever JUST yet, but there are ways to give your body the best chance it has to live...

It is important to say it again: Pace Controls Portions. This simple principle can be found in the healthy habits of the Mediterranean people, and has been replicated in this study published in the British Medical Journal. Over 3,000 Japanese volunteers (aged from 30 to 69) were asked about...

WHY is it that larger portions = larger consumption. This GREAT article, from Dr. Brian Wansink, used self-refilling bowls to see how portions create consumption. I love psychologists because they’re so sneaky. They gave one group of subjects soup bowls that, slowly and imperceptibly, refilled as their contents were...

How did it happen? How did the sense that “volume equals value” become so much a part of our way of thinking that it has made us the world leaders in overweight, diabetes, and all the other health problems that ride on its coattails. How did we get here?...

Over the past few decades, we have seen portion sizes go through the roof. It’s no surprise that our increasing weight problems have mirrored these increases in portion size. In the 1970s, for example, around 47% of Americans were overweight or obese; now 66 percent of us are. Likewise,...