In a revealing study, researchers at Virginia Weslyan College, Brian and craig Wasniak compared 52 depictions of The Last Supper painted over the last 1000 years, from the year 1000 to 2000 and came to the conclusion that the size of the portions on the table had incrementally increased over the centuries by almost 70%.
The last three decades of the 20th century have been described as "the tipping point" by researcher, Lisa R. Young, who wrote the book, The Portion Teller. She writes of the dramatic increase of portion size and the corelative dramatic increase in obesity world wide.
The Wasniak study is an amusing background for the trend that we are seeing reap its harvest in obesity related disease in populations today. It also spotlights the dramatic difference between affluence and poverty. As industrial societies gain weight, the third world starves.
Read more in this article in the March 23 LA Times article, here....
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"Happy meal". Now there's an oxymoron. I dislike McDonald's intensely, as you will discover if you read
http://dennishodgson.blogspot.com/2010/01/slow-food.html
But it's not just portion sizes. Too many people have allowed themselves to become couch potatoes who despise the very notion of exercise. No wonder they're fat.
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