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Portion Control Dining Out

by Brick ONeil

Restaurant Portion Barbara Rolls, Ph.D. at MSNBC.com has a good article on watching what you eat when you dine out:

If you like to dine out but are trying to watch your weight, the deck is stacked against you.

In many restaurants, a pasta bowl can hold 2 pounds. A plate of steak or fish weighing more than a pound is not unusual. Even sandwiches can contain more than 1,000 calories.

With Americans eating out more than ever and restaurant portion sizes growing steadily since the 1980s, it’s no wonder our waistlines have expanded too.

A survey of 300 American chefs from casual and fine dining restaurants helps explain the portion bloat.

While three-quarters of chefs believed they prepared regular-size servings, the portions they offered were two to four times larger than a typical person should eat, according to a survey I helped conduct along with Julie Flood, a Ph.D. student in nutrition at Penn State, and Marge Condrasky, a nutrition professor at Clemson University in South Carolina. The results are due to be published this summer.

For example, a popular restaurant chain’s smallest steak is 9 ounces and has 740 calories. An appropriate portion would be 4 ounces with only 300 calories.

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