March 13, 2004
Weight watching
Can you guess how many Hershey's Kisses are in "one serving" according to the nutritional information on the package?
ONE!
What a crock.
I am trying to lose weight before soccer season starts and it took a lot of willpower to hold myself to "four" "servings" yesterday when Lamont left me a small packet of Hershey Kisses. Usually "20" servings would feel about right.
Now it looks like the FDA will crack down on this nonsense. See this useful article in the Washington Post (it also tells you how to calculate your body mass index, which I never knew before):
The agency also sent letters to food manufacturers warning that it planned to be more aggressive about policing how labels count the number of servings in a package. Some labels are inaccurate or mislead people into overeating by dividing packages into unrealistically small serving sizes, officials said.
There is a suggestion in the article that restaurants begin to provide nutritional information, which I would love to have, even though on the other hand, this sounds bureaucratic and anti-"The Joy of Eating." I guess if we weren't a nation of fatties this wouldn't be necessary.
Your thoughts?
