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Dr. Lisa Young, PhD, RDN

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Pay attention to your portion of these foods

May 20, 2024 //  by Dr. Lisa Young

Hello, As a nutritionist, I counsel many clients who know what foods to eat to lose weight and be healthy. However, …

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Filed Under: Healthy eating, Portion control Tagged With: how much to eat, overeat, portion alert, Portion sizes, serving sizes, THe Portion Teller Plan

Video: Updated serving sizes on food labels

October 4, 2021 //  by Dr. Lisa Young

Have you noticed updated food labels? and new serving sizes? Are you confused ? On this brief video, I discuss what …

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Filed Under: Serving size, Wellness Tagged With: FDA, food label, nutrition, serving sizes

Sizing up servings for success

March 1, 2021 //  by Dr. Lisa Young

As I often tell my clients, if you happen to be cooking and eating at home (which most of us are doing these days), it …

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Filed Under: Serving size Tagged With: Calories, eyeball standard serving sizes, food portions, food scale, healthy portions, measuring tools, portion-size awareness, portions, serving sizes, sizing up servings, standard serving sizes

The serving size conundrum: Updated serving sizes on food labels will reflect how much we really eat.

February 12, 2020 //  by Dr. Lisa Young

For the first time in about a quarter of a century, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has updated the Nutrition …

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Filed Under: Food labels Tagged With: FDA, Finally full, Finally Full Finally Slim, food label serving sizes, food labels, NLEA, nutritin facts, nutrition labeling, serving sizes

New food labels reflect how much we really eat

May 26, 2016 //  by Dr. Lisa Young

Below is my blog post for Huffington Post, "New food labels reflect how much we really eat." You can also read it …

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Filed Under: Food and Drug Administration, Food labels, Portion size, Serving size Tagged With: Calories, Fod and Drug Administration, nutrition facts label, serving sizes, servings per container

Larger serving sizes on food labels may help us eat less!

April 6, 2016 //  by Dr. Lisa Young

Below is my blog for Huffington Post  "Larger serving sizes on food labels may encourage us to eat less." You can …

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Filed Under: Food labels Tagged With: Calories, Food and Drug Administration, food labels, Nutritin facts panel, obesity, Portion sizes, serving sizes

FDA proposes larger–more realistic–serving sizes for food labels

March 2, 2014 //  by Dr. Lisa Young

Below is my latest blog post for Huffington Post on the new food labels:  FDA proposes larger--more realistic--serving …

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Filed Under: Food and Drug Administration, Portion size, Serving size Tagged With: food labels, serving sizes, standard serving sizes

Bloomberg’s Cap on Supersize Soda May Be Contagious

December 26, 2013 //  by Dr. Lisa Young

Below is my latest blog post for Huffington Post "Bloomberg's cap on supersize soda may be contagious". You can also …

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Filed Under: Food portion, NYC Department of Health, Portion size, Public health Tagged With: Michael Bloomberg, NYC, obesity, Portion sizes, serving sizes, soda, soda ban, soda cap

Portion Size Me

November 14, 2012 //  by Dr. Lisa Young

Portion Size Me is a book that came out earlier this year and was written by Marshall Reid, a 12 year old and his mom …

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Filed Under: Food portion, Healthy eating, Healthy goals Tagged With: Portion sizes, serving sizes

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