NCPAD:Health Promotion: Estimating Serving Sizes

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What is a serving size?

Understanding serving (portion) sizes along with making good food choices is a part of healthy eating. Sometimes it can be difficult to visualize an ounce and a half of cheese (1 serving size from the Food Guide Pyramid).
Not knowing how much food you eat may result in eating hundreds of extra calories. This may lead to weight gain.
Below are some ways that will help you estimate a serving size.

This fact sheet was last updated on 12-19-2005.

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