Moldy Peaches

Income tax has bracket creep, while nutrition now has the portion creep. As portions have grown larger over the past 40 years, so have people in the USA, says Lisa Young, a nutrition researcher at New York University.

Studies show that the more food put in front of people, the more they eat. And since the 1960s, the serving sizes of foods sold in stores and restaurants — from candy bars to burgers and sodas — have become much bigger, Young says.

This means that when given a cookie the size of a Frisbee or a bagel as big as a flotation device, people ramp up their calorie intake. "Americans have grown proportionally to increased portion sizes," Young says.

The calorie content is most junkfood is now quite staggering - the table in the USA today article is fantastic. A large bucket of movie popcorn with butter has over 1,100 calories - yikes.

Canada is not far behind so we should not look down our collective noses to our neighbours.

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