Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Portion Size

Here's a helpful link for measuring portion sizes:

http://www.mealsmatter.org/EatingForHealth/Topics/article.aspx?articleId=52

And here's the site for the food pyramid to measure your daily intake:

http://www.mypyramid.gov/

How many of you knew that one serving of meat was the size of your palm???? I most certainly did not....I didn't know that one serving of a baked potato was the size of your computer mouse either!

Actually, I just stumbled on this portion size site and I like it better so I wanted to come back and edit the post:

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_3_2x_Portion_Control.asp

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