Managing a Healthy Diet : Judging Healthy Portion Sizes



How to judge healthy portion sizes in this free health video.

Expert: Brenda Thompson
Contact: www.lifeskillsnutrition.com
Bio: Brenda L. Thompson is a licensed dietitian and professional chef. She had struggled with weight her entire life. After some extreme life experiences, she decided to change her life for the best.
Filmmaker: Drew Noah


Video Transcript:

Hi, I'm Brenda Thompson, registered dietitian and owner of Life Skills Nutrition. This next
segment I am going to talk about healthy portion sizes. When you are writing in your food log,
sometimes you don't always have the utensils to measure your food to determine the appropriate
amount of calories that you are consuming. So I'm going to show you a few little tips
to help you determine the appropriate portion sizes in various food groups. Over here, we'll
start with the butter. A teaspoon of margarine is the size of the tip of your thumb to the
first joint. So this is butter, it's about one teaspoon. Three ounces of meat is about
the size of a deck of cards or about the palm of a woman's hand. The palm of a woman's hand
can also be about four ounces such as mine. That would be about four ounces, this piece
of chicken is about three. This one half cup of pasta is about the size of a tennis ball.
This is an example of a half a cup of pasta. One half of a medium bagel is about the size
of a hockey puck. An ounce and half of cheese is about the size of three dominoes. This
is an example of one ounce of cheese. Two tablespoons of peanut butter is the size of
a ping pong ball. This is approximately two tablespoons, and this is an organic peanut
butter so it spread a little bit. One half cup of vegetables is about the size of a light
bulb, as you would see here. So these are some tips that you can take with you when
you are dining out or you do not have the appropriate measuring utensils that you might
need when you are writing in your food log.


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