Fit Links: Portion Distortion

As fabulous as we at That's Fit think this blog is, the truth is there are hundreds of wonderful blogs on healthy living to be seen all over the blogosphere. So in this feature, Fit Links, we'll introduce you to some that have caught our eye.

While preparing for a recent camping trip, I decided to splurge and get my kids those little mini boxes of cereal. I remembered using them as a kid and thought they'd get a kick out of them. I was disappointed to discover that you can no longer eat the cereal directly from the box, but what surprised me more was that the boxes were about twice as big as I remember them.

My husband and I began wondering -- what came first? Are the cereal boxes bigger because people eat more now than they did 25 years ago? Or are people bigger now because portion sizes are growing out of control? (Seriously. One of those boxes would not even fit when we poured it into our cereal bowl.) It's all very chicken-and-the-egg.

So when I returned home and saw Mark's post on portion distortion, I laughed out loud. He's thinking the same thing I am! Divine Caroline talks about portion sizes then and now. And Rochelle at A Natural Choice reminds us what portion sizes should look like in the first place.

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