Comments on: Obesity, Is It In The Plate Size? http://www.noon-intl.com/blog/2009/06/04/obesity-is-it-in-the-plate-size/ Food Trading and Import and Export Company for Asia Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:27:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Martin Fierro http://www.noon-intl.com/blog/2009/06/04/obesity-is-it-in-the-plate-size/comment-page-1/#comment-2072 Martin Fierro Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:25:06 +0000 http://www.noon-intl.com/blog/?p=320#comment-2072 I believe that this issue shouldn’t be centered on the quantity of food people ingest but on the quality and, equally important, their life-routine and age-related metabolism changes. For instance, it is absolutely normal in other cultures to eat until the plate is “clean” (and even have a second plate) but, the kind of food, the size of the portion and what that person would do the rest of the day (assuming this was lunch) it is likely to be different from what would be here in US. So, from my personal perspective, the plate size along is not the cause of obesity. Further, if we considerer that eating “More Food Than Necessary + Eating Plate Clean = Eating More Calories Than Needed”, it can be inferred, then, that knowing your daily calorie consumption would significantly help you to decide which foods you should be eating and/or how much calories you need to burn in order to maintain certain eating habits. As you’ve rightly pointed out (and leaving genetic and medical problems aside), if is not burned it will be accumulated!!! I believe that this issue shouldn’t be centered on the quantity of food people ingest but on the quality and, equally important, their life-routine and age-related metabolism changes.

For instance, it is absolutely normal in other cultures to eat until the plate is “clean” (and even have a second plate) but, the kind of food, the size of the portion and what that person would do the rest of the day (assuming this was lunch) it is likely to be different from what would be here in US.

So, from my personal perspective, the plate size along is not the cause of obesity.
Further, if we considerer that eating “More Food Than Necessary + Eating Plate Clean = Eating More Calories Than Needed”, it can be inferred, then, that knowing your daily calorie consumption would significantly help you to decide which foods you should be eating and/or how much calories you need to burn in order to maintain certain eating habits.

As you’ve rightly pointed out (and leaving genetic and medical problems aside), if is not burned it will be accumulated!!!

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