Plus, you'll soon realise just how much more you can eat of healthy food for the same amount of calories for tiny
portions of junk food.
He started exercising slightly more, ate a little more healthily, and starting eating slightly smaller
portions of junk food.
The availability of large
portions of junk food appears to be linked to this obesity trend.
«What we're finding is people are having larger
portions of junk food, more often,» Professor Noakes said.
Not exact matches
The truth is if we just ate simple, natural, unprocessed
foods along with small
portions of quality meats and whole grains then most people wouldn't need to turn to any
of the dangerous
junk these companies are trying to sell.
And Rand Corp. researchers propose initiatives like those that worked for alcoholic beverages: Limit the density
of fast -
food outlets, ban sales in places that are not
food stores, insist that supermarkets put
junk foods and sodas where they are hard to see, ban drive - through sales, restrict
portion sizes and use warning labels.
Moms are seriously concerned about many aspects
of eating in America: 77 percent said
food portions are too large, 76 percent said
junk food is cheaper than good
food, 74 percent said too many children are overweight, and 72 percent said that prepared
foods contain too much sugar.
However, separate figures from the Department
of Health (DoH) show more children are eating five or more
portions off fruit and vegetables a day, thanks to schemes offering free fruit in schools and a clampdown on
junk food.
If you are eating clean you will realise that you can eat much larger
portions of healthy
food as opposed to
junk food.
Instead
of indulging every craving, you need to control
portion sizes, increase meal frequency and choose clean, whole
foods instead
of your favorite
junk food take - outs, and on top
of it, you have to make yourself to work out at least two times per week.
Taking the large
portions and tasty desserts and snacks out
of your diet is truly the greatest test
of willpower — it's all about the mental effort
of always keeping your long - term goals in mind and staying motivated, no matter how monstrous your
junk food cravings get.
To make a long study short, they say that past comparisons
of food costs were flawed because they only looked at price per calorie; whereas, comparing cost per average
portion is a better measure in their opinion, and one which, incidentally, shows fruit and vegetables to be cheaper than most moderation (e.g.
junk)
foods.
Research is showing that for weight loss, eating bigger
portions of healthy
foods is actually more important than dieting because, simply put, you'll have less room and less inclination to eat
junk food when you've already got a belly full
of the healthy stuff.