portion size through history
04-16-10, 11:13 AM
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portion size through history
https://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/...rPortions.html
The size of food portions and plates in more than four dozen depictions of the Last Supper -- painted over the past 1,000 years -- have gradually gotten bigger and bigger, according to a Cornell study published in The International Journal of Obesity (April, online March 23), a peer-reviewed publication.
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"We took the 52 most famous paintings of the Last Supper and analyzed the size of the entrées, bread and plates, relative to the size of Christ's head," said Wansink.
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"We took the 52 most famous paintings of the Last Supper and analyzed the size of the entrées, bread and plates, relative to the size of Christ's head," said Wansink.
04-17-10, 06:40 PM
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Eh, yeah... but years ago people were shorter than they are today. Maybe there's a connection.
04-18-10, 08:26 AM
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So the study is based on some artists perception of how someone else may have ate many centuries earlier...sounds like a sound basis for a theory.....NOT.
