TLN Health News Heads Up: By any other name, it's still a supersize

Fast-food portions keep getting bigger, but you might not know it

By Lisa R. Young, Ph.D, R.D.
(from MSNBC.com)

Fast-food restaurants may brag about their premium salads and apple fries, but for all the healthier items they've added to menus, portion bloat is bigger than ever.

Not only are servings getting larger, some top fast-food chains are engaged in a sleight-of-name game — marketing ploys which could confuse customers who think they're ordering less than they actually are, according to a study I co-authored with Dr. Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition at New York University, published in a recent Journal of Public Health Policy.

When McDonald's dumped its Supersize selections three years ago, many nutritionists were hopeful that restaurant chains and fast-food establishments would get back to thinking small.

Fat chance.

This article gets even better. Read on at MSNBC.com!