{"id":968,"date":"2009-01-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/nutrition-recipe-calories-on-the-rise\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T00:00:00","slug":"nutrition-recipe-calories-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/nutrition-recipe-calories-on-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe Calories on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Frances Largeman-Roth, RD<\/p>\n
It's not just fast food that packs on the pounds<\/p>\n
A new study found that calories in home-cooked meals have increased over time. The executive director of the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion said that recipes from The Joy of Cooking<\/em>, first published in 1937, have jumped 63 percent compared to the latest issue of the book. The average number of calories jumped a whopping 168 calories per serving—from 268 in the original edition to 436 calories in the latest one. Huh? Haven't we all made the switch from butter and margarine to olive oil, and from whole fat milk and cheese to reduced fat varieties? Apparently the changes came from increases in fat and sugar, and…you guessed it, larger serving sizes.<\/p>\n Portion distortion<\/strong> Read more<\/a> about changing plates to lose weight from our weight-loss editor. See the newest and trendiest styles of plates<\/a>, all under 10 inches in diameter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Istockphoto By Frances Largeman-Roth, RD It's not just fast food that packs on the pounds A new study found that calories in home-cooked meals have increased over time. The executive director of the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion said that recipes from The Joy of Cooking, first published in 1937, have jumped 63 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
We know that restaurant portions have increased substantially over the last 20 years, and apparently we've kept up at home. What can you do to help fight the bulge in your own kitchen? Here are some tricks and tools:<\/p>\n\n