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Portion Sizes

Recently Diet Blog were discussing The Diet Plate: Better Than Drugs?  The Diet Plate are a UK based company who have created a rather unique way of controlling portion sizes.

Plates are divided into sections according to the five food groups, the idea being that if you adhere to the set boundaries, you will control your food portions, and ultimately lose weight.

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I’m sure you’ve heard it said over and over again, that the key to a healthy diet and weight management is portion control. The concept is easy: if you eat less, you consume fewer calories, and therefore you lose weight! But, what does a “portion” of food look like?

With the current trend to up-size or super-size meals, it can be really tough to figure out what a “normal” portion size should look like. Most people do know the basics about nutrition, however, we must to be aware of just how much we are eating. This is just as important as what we eat.

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