Serving Size vs Portion Size
Serving Size vs Portion Size – You gain weight when you consume more food than your body needs. Watch this video to know the difference between serving sizes and portion sizes.
Expert: Kendra Coppey Certified by The American Council of Exercise
Transcript
It is clear that paying attention to portion size is important. Regardless of the food you’re eating, if you consume more than your body can use, weight gain is a likely result. So, what should you eat?
Let’s first differentiate between a serving and a portion.
A serving is the standard measure of food as seen on the food pyramid. When you read a nutritional label, the dietary information provided is always for a standard amount of food a serving.
A portion, on the other hand, is defined as what you end up actually eating. To demonstrate, let’s look at the size of a standard one-ounce serving of potato chips, which contains 152 calories and 9.8 grams of fat. Most of us, however, would end up eating a portion of at least three times that…consuming a whopping 456 calories and 29.4 grams of fat!
Last Modified: 2013-08-08
Category: Health and Nutrition, Videos
