Yes, Food Portion Sizes and People Have Become Bigger and Bigger. What Is to Be Done?

Affiliations

¹ Carlos A. Monteiro is with the Department of Nutrition and Geoffrey Cannon is with the Center for Epidemiological Studies in Health and Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Editorial

Carlos A Monteiro et al. Am J Public Health. 2021 Dec.

. 2021 Dec;111(12):2091-2093.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306547.

¹ Carlos A. Monteiro is with the Department of Nutrition and Geoffrey Cannon is with the Center for Epidemiological Studies in Health and Nutrition, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Portion Sizes of Ultra-Processed Foods in the United States, 2002 to 2021.
Young LR, Nestle M. Young LR, et al. Am J Public Health. 2021 Dec;111(12):2223-2226. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2021.306513. Am J Public Health. 2021. PMID: 34878877 Free PMC article.

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