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Old 08-20-2012, 09:07 AM  
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Originally Posted by Barefootsies View Post
Correct.

There was some health book I was reading last week that was talking about American PORTION sizes. How many see "serving sizes" and mistake what that means. Which they cited as roughly a "cup" is a serving size. Just because the restaurant gives you 5 servings at your meal doesn't mean eat it all and clean the plate.

For example, a bottle of some drink could be 2.5 servings, but people think of it as one bottle, one serving. Or that a candy bar is 2 servings on the wrapper, same concept. Meaning, people will think that whole drink/food is 200 or 400 calories, when in fact it's double.
I've been eating those new peanut butter Snickers. Man they are awesome. It's three little squares in a package.

If you read the label, it says something like 150 cal per serving. But, each serving is one of those squares. Good thing I only eat one at a time!

Want to lose weight? Stop being a gorging fool!
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