Fats and oils should be roughly the size of your thumb tip ... type of media can be played. Your hand can be used as a useful guide to controlling your food portions and staying healthy.

When it comes to putting food on our plates, it seems the average portion size in ... your hands:” Meat – the size of your palm Poultry/fish - the size of your hand Vegetables – a cupped ...

Using hand portion sizes can be more than 90 per cent accurate. That’s at least comparable to basic food trackers and scales - only your hands don’t cost you a penny. Well, that depends on ...

And research suggests that the more food ... hand. Lisa Young, PhD, RD, author of The Portion Teller, loves to use the "handy" method. According to Young, 3 ounces of meat is about the size ...

Portion sizes and type 2 diabetes go hand in hand. When you eat more food than your body needs, your blood sugar levels can spike, especially if the meal is heavy on carbs and sugar. This may lead ...

When McDonald's recently announced that it would be phasing out its "super size" French fries and soft drink portions in its U.S. fast food outlets, nutritionists and diet experts said ...

For instance, we eat because food tastes really ... to get familiar with portions and to help them to learn to eyeball and compare sizes to the size of their hand, etc.," they note.

Today, knowing appropriate portion sizes is becoming more difficult as commercial food industries and restaurants offer inaccurate views of recommended food helpings. This distorted outlook on food po ...

Over the past three decades an increase in food portion sizes and an increased energy intake have been observed in the USA. Condrasky et al. conducted a survey among 300 chefs from a variety of ...