Food For Thought

Food For Thought

by digby

69.2: The percentage increase in the size of the main course in 52 paintings of the Last Supper over the last millennium, a study in the International Journal of Obesity found. The study, by the brothers Brian Wansink of Cornell University and Craig Wansink of Virginia Wesleyan College, also found that plate size increased by 66 percent and bread size by 23 percent. Brian Wansink says the findings suggest that the phenomenon of serving bigger portions on bigger plates — which pushes people to overeat — has occurred gradually over the millennium as food has become more abundant and affordable.

I inherited some old china a while back and noticed that the dinner plates were the size of what are commonly thought of a salad plates today. Downsizing the dinnerware is a pretty easy way to downsize the calories, especially if you were raised in a “clean your plate” household.

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