Portion sizes

Article Type: Food facts From: Nutrition & Food Science, Volume 38, Issue 5.

The Food Standards Agency has today published the conclusions of an academic workshop that considered the available evidence of the relationship between portion size and people's energy intakes, weight gain and diet. This is accompanied by a report looking at changes in the portion size of everyday foods since the early 1990s (www.food.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/2008/jun/portionsize).