{"id":2672,"date":"2008-11-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/editorial-portion-distortion.html"},"modified":"2016-08-12T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:40:18","slug":"editorial-portion-distortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2672","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Portion Distortion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>How did it happen?<\/strong> <\/span>
How did the sense that \u201cvolume equals value\u201d become so much a part of our way of thinking that it has made us the world leaders in overweight, diabetes, and all the other health problems that ride on its coattails.<\/p>\n

How did we get here?<\/strong>
<\/span>Can we not have the presence of mind to keep from eating an entire pizza at a sitting, an entire sleeve of cookies, or an entire pie?<\/p>\n

<\/em>
Maybe the reason <\/u><\/em>why is as simple as our listening to clever marketers. They say 39 cents justifies twice the volume (the actor on the screen is so thin and beautiful).<\/p>\n

Maybe the reason <\/u><\/em>why is as simple as performing the right dietary calculations (if we just micromanage carbs or calories, points or proteins, we\u2019ll be okay again).<\/p>\n

Maybe the reason <\/u><\/em>why is as simple as a nation that has drifted from the importance of the family table, moving toward a search for more important things.<\/p>\n

Maybe the reason <\/u><\/em>why is as simple as the fact that we\u2019re filling some other yawning internal need … with food.<\/p>\n

Maybe<\/u><\/em>, in this way, our culture tends to encourage overconsumption, then punish us for the results of it, which can lead to more emotional eating.<\/p>\n

Maybe maybe maybe.
<\/strong>In the end, the reason WHY matters less than what we do about it. We need a solution that solves the portion distortion problem. This approach must lead to a set of behaviors that constrain consumption.<\/p>\n