Remake of Portion Distortion by Lisa Gualano

David Richardson

derichardson — 2017-09-29 17:07:10 UTC

After seeing both of the Portion Distortion slides, I was sort of shocked. But, I know that these increased portions have really only happened in American RESTAURANTS. We can make what we want of our portions.

Jon Qunell

jaqunell — 2017-09-29 17:08:32 UTC

I already knew all of this. Almost everything that is a "common food" is full of fat, sugar, and calories.

Maaz Zubair

2017-09-29 17:11:49 UTC

So, because of larger portion sizes, obesity and weight have increased.
THAT'S NOT GOOD!!!!!

Jonathan Pearson

jtpearson — 2017-09-29 17:17:33 UTC

The sugary foods surprised me the most because i did not realize there was that much sugar in pop tarts

Maximus Bertolo

2017-09-29 17:18:36 UTC

On almost all the questions, I guessed all of the calorie amounts incorrectly because of there high amounts. It surprised me on how much has changed in the last 20 years.

Nihal Kaki

2017-09-29 17:19:50 UTC

The Distortion of the Portions was surprising, I already knew it got larger, but not this much! Next time me and my family are out coming back from robotics, I have to really think twice about asking for McDonald's

deborah hinzo

djhinzo — 2017-09-29 17:19:53 UTC

what...

Claire Yung

2017-09-29 17:20:00 UTC

What surprises me the most is how the American food proportions have increased so much but compared to many other countries like Japan they still have small proportions to promote people to eat healthier. Whereas the Americans have disposed of this knowledge and are creating larger and large proportions.

Ria Pande

2017-09-29 17:22:19 UTC

Over the years, the food portions have tremendously increased. The calories and ingredients slowly got more and artificial. When I eat at a restaurant here, I usually have enough to eat for a few days. When I go to another country (like India), the food portion is enough for just one meal. It tastes authentic and not artificial. I think we should really start to reduce the portion sizes or else the future generations will be in danger.

Nolan Yee

2017-09-29 17:24:47 UTC

A lot of this is common knowledge; it's been well known that we've been slowly increasing our portion sizes since very long ago. Now that food sizes are getting huge , people have to be self-aware of their food choices.

Katherine Wang

2017-09-29 17:26:09 UTC

What surprised me was that weight and obesity have increased in these years because restaurants are serving more food.

Peter Cannon

pacannon1 — 2017-09-29 17:26:43 UTC

I thought they did a good job presenting a google image and making it slightly larger. And adding foods that the average person never eats. The information was well organized, but I don't agree with it. Most of this shows our civilization is thriving, and we need more food to keep up with the advancements in technology. But obesity is an academic, so I'm glad they're trying to help.

Jerry Luo

2017-09-29 17:27:44 UTC

What surprised me the most was the huge calorie difference between the portion sizes and how much one would need to exercise to burn it off.

Tanvika Vedam

2017-09-29 17:30:55 UTC

All foods that people like have fat, sugars, and all things that can be unhealthy.

Katherine Sullivan

kasullivan12 — 2017-10-01 17:16:10 UTC

Some of the things are just dumb and aren't very reasonable, but it is good they want to stop people from being obese.

Gauri Elandassery

gdelandassery — 2017-10-02 15:42:22 UTC

It was pretty disgusting to look at what I am eating and how much sugar and fat there is. It's also weird to see how the french fries were perfectly fine but then they just had to make it bigger!

Evan Dombkiewicz

ejdombkiewicz1 — 2017-10-02 15:43:02 UTC

Food Portions have drastically increased over the years due to increased overall wealth of people. Restraunts are giving bigger portion sizes for more money. Manufacturers are also learning to trick people with portion sizes. On a Gatorade bottle, it says there are 13 grams of sugar and 80 calories, but most people don't notice that they lables the 20oz bottle as 2.5 servings of 8oz. Therefore, the Calorie count is 200 and the ADDED SUGAR count is 34 grams of ADDED SUGARS. The foods that suprised me the most were the plate of fries. How could companies get away with increasing portion sizes that much, almost three times the original serving sizes.

Sophia Crew

screw2 — 2017-10-02 15:43:14 UTC

what surprised me the most was that if you eat a turkey sandwich today you have to ride your bike for a hour and 25 minutes to burn off the calories.

Bella Brown

blbrown9 — 2017-10-02 15:43:22 UTC

I think that the thing that suprised me the most was the amount of calories that have

Kyle Krueger

2017-10-02 15:44:08 UTC

There is way to much sugar and sodium in all the foods that we eat

Swetha Krishnamoorthy

skrishnamoorthy — 2017-10-02 15:44:38 UTC

What surprised me the most was the fact about french fries. Before 20 yrs ago the french fries contained 210 calories. But now the french fries contain 610 calories.
If you want to burn out all those calories you need to walk leisurely for 1 hour 10 minutes to burn approximately 400 calories

Jason Mckinlay

jamckinlay — 2017-10-02 15:45:22 UTC

The food that surprised me the most was that it would take one hour and twenty minutes of a walk to approximately burn all of the calories from a coffee nowadays. WHAT?!?!

Bella Brown

blbrown9 — 2017-10-02 15:45:53 UTC

The thing that surprised me the most was the amount of calories that went up when the proportion was bigger.

Ryan Young

rayoung8 — 2017-10-02 15:45:56 UTC

I was really surprised at how many calories are in the foods that we eat today, compared to the food we ate 20 years ago. The spaghetti doubled in calorie size in just 20 years while the serving size grew one cup of pasta, and the meatballs got a little larger. I was also surprised at the amount of physical activity we would have to do if we ate today's cheeseburger to burn the extra calories. I mean exercising for an hour and a half just to burn off 257 calories seems like a lot of time

Gabriela Ursu

2017-10-02 15:46:04 UTC

Food calories per portion increased drastically over the years. Restaurants and food places want more money and they increase the size and eventually the calories amount because they want us to buy more if we like the taste. What surprised me the most is the drastical change for cookies 55 calories at first and now 275, I am shocked of what food can hide.

Michael Yang

mryang2 — 2017-10-02 15:46:58 UTC

I was shocked that the standards and portions Americans used twenty years ago is tiny compared to today.. The amount of calories and sugars has dramatically increased and that is why Americans are getting more and more obese

Allison Zhang

axzhang2_2 — 2017-10-02 15:47:30 UTC

The portion sizes of the food are extremely different than the food sizes from 20 years ago. In order to burn the extra calories, you need to exercise for approximately an hour. I think that the coffee surprised me the most, because 20 years ago it was only 45 calories and 8 ounces, but now it's 350 calories and 16 ounces. The proportions don't match up, which is disgusting to see the new amounts of fat and sugar.

Nicholas Olson

nrolson2 — 2017-10-02 15:47:34 UTC

I already knew a lot of this from background knowledge, a lot of the food that most people get on a daily basis is full of fat, calories, and sugar.

Grace Biederman

gmbiederman1 — 2017-10-02 15:47:43 UTC

I was surprised by how much bigger everything is now than it was 20 years ago. I thought a muffin was small now, but you would still have to vacuum for over an hour to burn off all the calories!

Jill Jennings

2017-10-02 15:48:53 UTC

I'm surprised that the change from 20 years ago changed by a lot. It changed by 257 calories!!! That's a lot!

Samson Smiling

2017-10-02 15:49:49 UTC

I was surprised that lots of the portions today have lots more calories then they had 20 years ago. The amount of calories that salad has surprised me because people think that it is healthy when it has more calories then a muffin. A salad has 700 calories when a muffin has 500! Calories today have grown.

The portion sizes are much smaller 20 years ago and today it is much bigger.

mmraveendran — 2017-10-02 15:49:50 UTC

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gaericksen11 — 2017-10-02 15:50:01 UTC

That it only takes 50 min to burn 200 cal.

Katie Yakus

kayakus — 2017-10-02 15:50:40 UTC

I was surprised to find out how badly were eating and how the calories have gone up so much.

Nelson Benjamin

2017-10-02 15:51:45 UTC

one of the things that suprised me the most was when PEPPERONI PIZZA
everyone loves pizza but it changed 350 cal.
anther one that surprised me was TURKEY SANDWICH because it had 500 cal. In my a pinon I think that is a lot but they say is that if you ride a bike for 1 hour and 25 minutes,
you will burn approximately 500 calories. if you ride your bike and go on a long bike ride would help.
another thing I think of is frence fris they have lots of cal.

Ryan sherry

rtsherry1 — 2017-10-02 15:51:56 UTC

The foods we eat has to much sugar and sodium so it is not good for us.

Jack Hunnicutt

jfhunnicutt1_2 — 2017-10-02 15:52:07 UTC

I think that the thin that surprised me the most was that the fries tripled in calories but didn't triple in size. I would think that they would be able to triple it all. But I guess they just want to pump it full of junk food.

Andrew Rousonelos

agrousonelos — 2017-10-02 15:54:41 UTC

What surprised me most was that the ceasar salad was made so much worse in portion size and calories

Justin Chen

2017-10-02 15:55:22 UTC

After the slides I was surprised that all common foods hold many fats, sugars, and calories

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2017-10-02 15:56:47 UTC

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Katherine Ruan

2017-10-02 17:05:26 UTC

What surprised me was how much serving sizes increased over the years. It surprised me how much exercise was needed to burn the calories of the new serving sizes.

Eury CHoi

echoi29_4 — 2017-10-02 17:08:15 UTC

I was super surprised at how much the food companies are tricking us by saying 1/2 a bag of things are like super fatty but it makes you think it's the whole thing and you get so WHOAed.

Olivia Meyer

2017-10-02 17:08:49 UTC

What surprised me was how the portion sizes have changed so much in the past 20 years. It also surprises me that I can finish a meal at a restraunt now and I think that it is normal!

Simi Kama

skama1 — 2017-10-02 17:13:18 UTC

I was surprised at how tiny the portions were before. I used to think that the bagels right now couldn't get any smaller! But when I saw that the difference was huge, I realized that what a problem this will become and what it is now.

Henry Wendt

hawendt1 — 2017-10-02 22:01:49 UTC

I was surprised at how much our country doesn't focus on healthy foods especially with all the high tech and improving technology you'd think america might be focusing on healthy foods, not war ,toys, and i phones.

Tara Madhavan

trmadhavan — 2017-10-03 00:01:41 UTC

After reading this, I was shocked. But, I believe that this has only happened in America.

Benjamin Wang period 4

2017-10-03 13:04:17 UTC

I was surprised that after looking at the sodas, it turns out that the sodas today are better in a way because if you multiply the small soda's calories by about 3, it is 11 more than the soda today. This is because if you multiply the 6.5 ounces by about 3, then you will get 20, so same goes for the calories.

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2017-10-03 15:28:51 UTC

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2017-10-03 15:28:51 UTC

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Katelyn Gnade

2017-10-03 15:28:51 UTC

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Katelyn Gnade

2017-10-03 15:28:51 UTC

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Katelyn Gnade

2017-10-03 15:28:51 UTC

I was surprised by how much

Katelyn Gnade

2017-10-03 15:29:26 UTC

I was surprised by how much sugar there was in soda

Mia Hess

mkhess — 2017-10-09 13:46:21 UTC

I was pretty surprised on how much calories the spaghetti has in general, which it was back 20 years ago about 500 calories, and today over 1,000. Also, I was surprised on the coffee, since a lot of people drink it everyday, and the cookie since it's so small.