Portion Size is Important!
Changing your lifestyle can be very confusing at first. This handy portion guide can help anyone with food confusion:
Grains and Starches
Portion Size: an amount up to the size of your fist
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Teens gorge on fast food even when not super-sized
On one day, they ate the meal in the standard fashion - all at once. On another day, all of the food was served together, but in four smaller packages; the point was to see if a different "visual cue" ...
Size of drink, alcohol content critical to impact on health
If you are counting calories, it is important to know how much alcohol you are getting in a drink. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines an alcoholic drink as 12 ounces of "regular" b ...
The numbers (size) game
I have a mom who’s like a character in a sit-com…very Suzanne Pleschette in a fur coat. Mom keeps saying I should be a size 6, that I have thrown away “my birthday gifts” of looks by not being so. T ...
Luscious wheat-free crackers!
Years ago, my now husband and I stopped at his colleague’s side business, a health food store. Robbie wasn’t too much into that scene, but he wanted to be a good sport. He looked around for a few th ...
Celebrity Size Obsession
Over the last year there has been an increasing number of websites and magazines that focus exclusively on celebrity weight and size. I've always been interested in this kind of thing since many femal ...
Old Navy: Plus-size Clothing Taken Off Shelves
Old Navy is a clothing brand own by Gap Inc. Up until very recently, Old Navy offered the "Women's Plus" line of clothing in 175 stores.
Old Navy have now decided to remove the clothes from the shelv ...
Frame Size Calculator
Frame Size Calculator
http://www.etoolsage.com/calculator/Frame_Size_Calculator.asp?toolsort=1500
The calculator provides two methods for calculating the body frame size, The standard method ...
