What are Healthy Food Portion Sizes?
Nutritionists and doctors often tell us that we must reduce our food portion sizes in order to lose or maintain weight. This can be challenging since a lot of us don’t know what exactly healthy food portions sizes are. Most of us don’t have a scale on hand to weigh and measure everything we eat, and portion sizes may differ depending on what we’re eating.
Nutritionists and doctors often tell us that we must reduce our food portion sizes in order to lose or maintain weight. This can be challenging since a lot of us don’t know what exactly healthy food portions sizes are. Most of us don’t have a scale on hand to weigh and measure everything we eat, and portion sizes may differ depending on what we’re eating. One way to tell if you’re eating correct food portion sizes is to use your hands and fists as a guide to measurement. Your stomach is about the size of your two fists put together, though this can vary, so that you probably shouldn’t eat more than two fists of food at any meal. In general, portions of veggies are two fists, portions of meat are one palm, portions of cereals and breads are one fist, and portions of fruit are a half to a full fist. Light dairy products and peanut butter are about palm size.
