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<blockquote data-quote="phoenix" data-source="post: 503896" data-attributes="member: 12578">&quot;&nbsp; And those who live in areas where they have the most long lived people, do exactly that&nbsp;&nbsp;In &#039;my&#039; bit of France,&nbsp; adults don&#039;t snack and&nbsp; although food plays an important part of their culture&nbsp; and lunch is sacrosanct&nbsp; they&nbsp; really don&#039;t seem to eat big portions .I&nbsp; find that I can eat a two or&nbsp; three course meal&nbsp; from a typical restaurant lunchtime menu but often give up on a one course meal in a UK&nbsp; restaurant.&nbsp;The BHF looked at portion distortion in the UK&nbsp; comparing 1993 to 2013, a few things have got smaller but most have increased with some serving sizes doubling.In the report they also cite&nbsp; a study which&nbsp; showed that people do indeed eat to the portion&nbsp; they are given, and didn&#039;t&nbsp; compensate for a56%&nbsp; larger portion by eating&nbsp; less later in the day .&nbsp; There were no systematic differences in peoples perceptions of hunger or fullness.&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="https://www.bhf.org.uk/media/news-from-the-bhf/portion-distortion.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.bhf.org.uk/media/news-from-the-bhf/portion-distortion.aspx</a>&nbsp;&nbsp; One&nbsp; recent study showed that young children will&nbsp; not only&nbsp; serve themselves more but will also eat more when given an adult sized plate.&nbsp; They don&#039;t necessarily eat everything on the plate so it&#039;s not just because they&nbsp; feel that they&nbsp; are expected to empty the plate( I noticed another recent study that said chimps did it too)&nbsp;I use very much the same system as Catherine for portion control. It is what I was shown&nbsp; by the dietitian here (together with weighing starches for those of us on insulin.&nbsp; I adopted it because I was following instructions and as I used a fixed insulin dose was scared stiff of getting things wrong and&nbsp; eating too much or too little. Though I can and do vary things a bit now I still tend&nbsp; to stick to the same pattern for normal day to day meals,.I&#039;ve been there&nbsp; to translate when she has worked with people with T2. She uses the same basic model, just varying slightly&nbsp; the &#039;thickness&#039; of things of the plate or&nbsp; the&nbsp; size of the protein source and/or&nbsp; perhaps the amount of dairy</blockquote>

[QUOTE="phoenix, post: 503896, member: 12578"] " And those who live in areas where they have the most long lived people, do exactly that In 'my' bit of France, adults don't snack and although food plays an important part of their culture and lunch is sacrosanct they really don't seem to eat big portions . I find that I can eat a two or three course meal from a typical restaurant lunchtime menu but often give up on a one course meal in a UK restaurant. The BHF looked at portion distortion in the UK comparing 1993 to 2013, a few things have got smaller but most have increased with some serving sizes doubling. In the report they also cite a study which showed that people do indeed eat to the portion they are given, and didn't compensate for a56% larger portion by eating less later in the day . There were no systematic differences in peoples perceptions of hunger or fullness. [url]https://www.bhf.org.uk/media/news-from-the-bhf/portion-distortion.aspx[/url] One recent study showed that young children will not only serve themselves more but will also eat more when given an adult sized plate. They don't necessarily eat everything on the plate so it's not just because they feel that they are expected to empty the plate( I noticed another recent study that said chimps did it too) I use very much the same system as Catherine for portion control. It is what I was shown by the dietitian here (together with weighing starches for those of us on insulin. I adopted it because I was following instructions and as I used a fixed insulin dose was scared stiff of getting things wrong and eating too much or too little. Though I can and do vary things a bit now I still tend to stick to the same pattern for normal day to day meals, .I've been there to translate when she has worked with people with T2. She uses the same basic model, just varying slightly the 'thickness' of things of the plate or the size of the protein source and/or perhaps the amount of dairy [/QUOTE]

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