Portion size: How much should you eat?

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  Hello and welcome to the Food Chain from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Ruth Alexander and this week we're focusing on portion size, how much we put on our plate,

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  how much we should put on our plate and why it's so difficult to get it right.

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  And I'm in my kitchen

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  because we're going to start by comparing portion sizes here in the UK with those in the United States.

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  And joining me from New York is my colleague Natalie Jimenez.

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  Natalie, hello, thanks so much for being with us today.

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  Thanks for having me.

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  Now, we have both been hard at work ordering ourselves takeout for lunch, haven't we?

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  And from the same fast food company, large chicken nuggets and fries,

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  and I'm very interested to know how many nuggets you've got.

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  I got 20.

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  I got double, so I got 40.

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  A little bit heavier than yours.

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  Yeah, well, I hope you're hungry.

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  fries.

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  I have been measuring these, I'll weight them,

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  and I have to be very precise 157 grams worth of fries.

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  So I have almost or up to 90 individual fries in this one packet,

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