theatlantic: A Fast Food Burger Is 3 Times Larger Now Than in The 1950s Research has shown that the bigger your plate, the likelier it is you’ll overeat. The same logic may apply to fast food, where according to a new infographic by the Centers for Disease Control, portion sizes for popular items have increased dramatically since the 1950s. Read more. [Image: CDC] While this is gross, soda isn’t our biggest problem (aside form our own bad decisions, of course). The graph above falsely applies blame to restaurants, omitting the fact that the USDA, as two-faced as possible, maintains a (however flawed) diet program while providing subsidies that make soda super cheap to produce. 
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A Fast Food Burger Is 3 Times Larger Now Than in The 1950s

Research has shown that the bigger your plate, the likelier it is you’ll overeat. The same logic may apply to fast food, where according to a new infographic by the Centers for Disease Control, portion sizes for popular items have increased dramatically since the 1950s.

Read more. [Image: CDC]

While this is gross, soda isn’t our biggest problem (aside form our own bad decisions, of course). The graph above falsely applies blame to restaurants, omitting the fact that the USDA, as two-faced as possible, maintains a (however flawed) diet program while providing subsidies that make soda super cheap to produce. 

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Source: The Atlantic

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