8 Comments

  1. "1,233 percent increase in chocolate bar size since early 1900s"

    Which bars are you talking about? Most on the shelves today are much smaller in size and cost much more than years ago!

  2. bob klinck says:

    Technology has increased productive capacity, so servings have increased in size to absorb the surplus "food". We are literally drowning in "stuff", more and more the products of robotic production, which distributes minimal income to individuals. People are coerced into running on the production treadmill by being denied buying ability except on condition of having a "job", most of which are now redundant or irrelevant. Hopefully people will begin to discern the internal contradictions of this policy and demand an approach to income-distribution appropriate in a superproduction economy.

  3. Where do you buy a 12 ounce hamburger? I don't see hamburgers that are over 3 times larger than 50 years ago…and I was alive 50 years ago.

    Same for those chocolate bars. Which ones are you talking about?

  4. “1,233 percent increase in chocolate bar size since early 1900s”

    I call foul. This statement is ridiculous. One-serving bars are nearly always 3 to 4 ounces. Huge bars are available, but they are certainly not intended for single-serving use, just as a 2-liter bottle of Coke is not a single-serving bottle.

  5. Italics Mine says:

    All you people that are pointing out the flaws in the story: stop it. STOP IT!

    You're just supposed to fret about how awful things are, and wish we had more government to solve the problem.

    Now stop analyzing everything and believe what you're told. Dammit.

  6. Wow..do you think that the portions coincide with the price rate increases through the years? Obviously not..or we would get troughs and not plates of food.

    This article…seems moot.

  7. Eliot W. Collins says:

    I do not eat in restaurants. I do not trust what goes on out of my sight. Watch Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. What happens there could happen anywhere.

    Many restaurants are too expensive for what you get, no matter how large the portion size.

    1. Adam Evenson says:

      The best way to control one's body weight is with one's mentality. When I had fully realized this, I weighed 200#, within a six foot, large-boned frame. It was not a bad weight for me, but I decided I would begin losing weight and then stop losing when it felt just about right. Within 90 days I lost 25#, yet, I did not change my diet, which is vegetarian. I ate the same things and same amounts, but lost 25#.

      I had weighed 200 for about thirty years up to that point, and illustrated that I could control my body weight primarily with mentality. It's so easy that I am amazed there are so many obese people in the world. One can just banish the weight and it will melt off gradually enough that it hurts not, any fast enough that one will observe clothing getting larger rapidly enough to witness day by day.

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