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Tricks for Controlling Portion Size

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Tricks for Controlling Portion Size

Published: Fri, 6 Nov 2009

Description: What do a computer mouse and a hockey puck have to do with controlling food portions? Dietitian Tanya Zuckerbrot reveals tips to help you keep your waistline in check

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" Welcome back to against citation 10% to brought. --"

" Portion controls supersize have been talking about that and though you have tricks up his sleeve. To get everybody cooking and to the against the rise size."

" Cut back home cooking home cooking but can't get this portion the only restaurant where there and that's served -- point and -- Well it's hard to assess how much is a question at reluctant to arrest on a cloud scale Plotkin need on and help you do you want me this event. And whenever I want to look into our minds as they could be -- this side of what we have to -- some visual cues telling him yellow light at the table and even someone assess how much of that each of the evil and -- I did say the words believe old badly overmatched hadn't seen the prices they charge -- I am I gonna do not gonna hanging around like that I'm saying pack up and take it home I cannot stress enough that questions -- restaurants are -- at the -- times. The amount that you should be eating two to three times so I recommend to. All my patients eat half and taking and a half home. -- getting much more than what you bargained for and unfortunately. -- So this these are all premiums pushes for proteins so it consulate in mean weight that's one thing about the size of the -- but at Indy three ounces. And when it comes to portion. I -- in 1946 ounces so you can add up to two so if I think of a check book like this. I say I wanna p.s that chicken or against the fish this emphasized that this McCain will want an Olympic check our pilots to look at the -- take in what eat and their reaction to peace is standing. At the mayor -- it looks like a deck of cards than you think you get the link here is because this is so sanity and compare it to the thickness of this and it. So think about a deck of cards and this is a three ounce portion of check in -- and here we have Stan beef. It county that actually wanted to read that. You have spending cuts and --"

" And I'm port land in -- he doesn't know which cuts to get OK all right the next trick they have up your -- is this the the the dice."

" What about but that this spicy cheese and we think about teens with a one ounce of hard cheeses -- hundred calories. That's a lot of calories a small amount of food so the way that you Bible that end -- putting together Fordyce and that's -- the size of one ounce of cheese. So okay so so what -- leading let's say okay popped -- is that she's boy does it right but they don't cut it that date when you go to they cut it a little bit smaller than that look and feel -- have to -- but -- around it counts as a hundred calories. An account is -- Nazi like a lot in the big picture but 100 calories in excess every day week to ten pounds of weight gain. It does matter."

" Okay the next trick they have some good you know this that we all these visuals have that have to be like for me any visuals. That they did this is that the mouse that computer now and it's a spice to -- Catania."

" Now they're -- details that really aren't we have four times the size now from China elegant idea that it Atlantis is it's probably half. Half the amount of an average -- it's hitting it again and restaurant something of a computer mouse but look great visual -- a very simple even if they bring it bigger potato to the table."

" I have to do is heed the portion that I think looks like a computer."

" this portion distortion. Push it and unsold large that we know we know what a normal portion is supposed to look like me a week alive as well in the clean your plate club run by him mom or dad -- clean your plate if we likely that ain't right so we -- out. We apply that same thinking we have to clean our plate. Unfortunately the average restaurant meal is over a thousand calories it's more than half of your needs the entire day went to eat half and take a rest home aren't. The tennis ball yes at a price the pot that's fifth that it. This is half cup Busch and united tallied RNA and lands now I'm not Italian I do love Italian food and it's not to say not eat Italian food not to eat pasta. The point being that this is half a cup and recommend. One cop so I'm the size of two tennis balls but the way to visualize a half cup question. Which is it AD in -- that's what we're going that I should -- Ford -- to tennis bulls -- Tennis balls as a as a start questioning without that that would protein vegetables and lean protein and somewhat that's the -- I -- to tennis bulls and a computer mouse and one guy that's okay. It sounds like quite a meal then. -- Great -- Cuban restaurant. And finally you have the the hockey puck what is that in represented that should be the size and that they are that would be -- and stayed all. Unfortunately -- near exceeding the average baseball is set to speak and says and if you want to cut and to terms a slightly as a white bread. One ounce of red equals a slice -- seven and speed bump. It's seven slices -- you wanna look thirteen ounce beta which would be equivalent -- into pieces of toast for breakfast. Eight and -- and that is excessive and we'll probably need to -- So all of these rules that you have shown us who does that apply to everybody. Everywhere and everybody currently trying to every three Americans are overweight and one of the greatest you're looking at one right now -- is our fortunes out of control with eating way too much. And it's kind to. If we can't get the manufacturers in the restaurants to serve small questions that we've got to get a little more proactive in just aren't eating half of these -- portions of it not we end up looking down by."

" Thank you so much for my oil at least bricks I think that this is very important because everybody's overweight myself included so only the start eating all my little different. You know almighty computer mouse -- year old -- ideas."

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