{"id":203,"date":"2006-09-28T02:17:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T06:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2006-09-28T02:17:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T06:17:49","slug":"serving-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Serving Size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/dj-paradise.livejournal.com\/173470.html\" target=\"_top\">DJ Paradise<\/a>, comes this article about <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/diet_portion_confusion;_ylt=AjSbnzMxmHyfklLaheqV1CwDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBhcmljNmVhBHNlYwNtcm5ld3M-\" target=\"_top\">serving sizes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, people have trouble determining what a serving size is sometimes. I think it was a really poor choice of words &#8212; &#8220;serving&#8221; &#8212; it makes you think of a serving platter at a restaurant or something. Most people automatically make serving = meal in their minds, but really servings are quite small (a total of 20-24 or so servings a day over your ~3 meals + snacks). 2 cookies, a kid&#8217;s sippy glass of milk, half a bowl of soup: portions that are much smaller than we tend to have experience with. Unfortunately in this case it&#8217;s not the companies, but the government that&#8217;s to blame for not only creating the discrepancy between portion size and serving size, but also for giving it the name &#8220;serving&#8221;. [Though whether we should blame the American or Canadian government is a bit of an open question; if in doubt, blame both]<\/p>\n<p>Also, I highly recommend you all go to YouTube and search for &#8220;How it should have ended&#8221; &#8212; they&#8217;re a funny series of clips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via DJ Paradise, comes this article about serving sizes. Yep, people have trouble determining what a serving size is sometimes. I think it was a really poor choice of words &#8212; &#8220;serving&#8221; &#8212; it makes you think of a serving platter at a restaurant or something. Most people automatically make serving = meal in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}