SUPERSIZING

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SUPERSIZING

• What Goes Around Comes Around

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• supersize
• verb T US
• to give a customer in a fast food restaurant the
  largest size of meal or drink"A burger and a
  coke please." "Can I supersize it for
  you?"(from Cambridge Advanced Learners
  Dictionary)

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Whats the Problem?

• American people are eating excessive amounts of
  calories, which can lead to obesity, diabetes,
  heart disease, and other chronic diseases

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Why are we Eating so Much?

• USDAs dietary intake surveys show a
  236-calorie-per-person-per-day increase between
  1987 and 1995
• Consumption of oversized portions of food may be
  a large part of the problem

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Super Sizes

• Labor, packaging, and marketing comprise most of
  the cost of selling a food product, while the
  actual food is the smallest portion of a
  products cost
• Portion sizes in the food industry are growing
  because it is profitable to make larger portions

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Super Sizes

• As an addition to the oversized portion sizes of
  food, menus now offer customers the option of
  supersizing their orders
• Supersizing is an attractive deal since customers
  can increase the size of their order for only a
  few extra cents, getting more for their money

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Supersizing

• However, getting more food for our money also
  means getting more calories

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Comparisons Then and Now

• Hersheys Bar
• 1908 0.6oz
• Now 1.6oz-8.0oz

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Then and Now

• McDonalds French Fries
• 1955 2.4oz
• Now 2.4oz (small), 5.3(medium), 6.3(large),
  7.1(supersize)

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Then and Now

• Coca Cola (bottle, can)
• 1916 6.5oz
• Now 8.0-34.0oz

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Then and Now

• When McDonalds First Opened original burger,
  fries, and a coke 590cals
• Now A supersize extra value meal with
  cheeseburger, fries, and a drink 1,550cals

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Proper ServingsBreads, Cereals, and Pastas

• 1slice of bread
• ½ cup of cooked rice or pasta
• ½ cup of cooked cereal
• 1oz ready to eat cereal

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Proper ServingsMilk, Yogurt, and Cheese

• 1 cup of milk or yogurt
• 1-1/2 to 2 ounces of cheese

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Proper ServingsVegetables

• ½ cup of cooked or raw vegetables
• 1cup of leafy raw vegetables

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Proper ServingsFruits

• 1 piece of fruit or melon wedge
• ¾ cup of juice
• ½ cup of canned fruit
• ¼ cup of dried fruit

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Proper ServingsMeat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans,
Eggs, and Nuts

• 2-1/2 to 3oz of cooked lean meat, poultry, or
  fish
• Count ½ cup of cooked beans, or 1 egg, or 2 Tbsp
  of peanut butter as 1oz of lean meat (about 1/3
  serving)

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Proper ServingsFat, Oils, and Sweets

• Limit calories from these

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Helpful Hints for Remembering Portion Sizes

• ½ cup fruit, vegetable, cooked cereal, pasta, or
  rice a small fist
• 3oz cooked meat, poultry, or fish a deck of
  cards
• ½ bagel width of a large coffee lid

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Hints Cont.

• One muffin a large egg
• One tsp of margarine or butter a thumb tip
• 2 Tbsp of peanut butter a golf ball
• A small baked potato a computer mouse

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Hints Cont.

• One pancake or waffle a 4inch CD
• One medium apple or orange a baseball
• 4 small cookies 4 casino chips
• 1.5 oz of cheese six dice

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Data Taken From

• Spake, Amanda. Americas supersize diet is
  fattier and sweeter and deadlier. U.S. News
  and World Report. Aug. 19,2002.
• Are Growing Portion Sizes Leading to Expanding
  Waistlines? Study in Journal of the American
  Dietetic Association Sizes up Trends.
  www.eatright.org. 3/26/04