{"id":5873,"date":"2009-02-24T12:09:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2009-02-24T12:09:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T17:09:08","slug":"the-joy-of-cooking-super-sized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/the-joy-of-cooking-super-sized\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Cooking, Super-Sized!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portion distortion isn&#8217;t just exclusive to your dining destinations, be it fast food or otherwise. A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that it&#8217;s spilled over into the recipe books, too!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/recipes.gif\" alt=\"recipes\" width=\"209\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study looked at how classic <a title=\"healthy recipes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/\" target=\"_self\">recipes<\/a> have changed during the past 70 years and found a nearly 40 percent increase in calories per serving for just about every recipe reviewed, about an extra 77 <a title=\"calorie count\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/Calorie_Count\/\" target=\"_self\">calories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study identified the trend in many cookbooks, but it focused on the iconic <a title=\"joy of cooking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0743246268\/ref=nosim\/?tag=wwweasyfreesc-20  \" target=\"_blank\"><em>Joy of Cooking<\/em><\/a>. It was first published in the &#8217;30s and has been regularly updated, most recently in 2006.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cornell University marketing professor Brian Wansink, who directed the study, says he is more concerned about the increase in overall calories per recipe (caloric density) than in the <a title=\"portion sizes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/know-your-portion-sizes\/\" target=\"_self\">portion size<\/a> increases.<\/p>\n<p>Since the study doesn&#8217;t account for how much is eaten after people prepare the recipes, it&#8217;s not altogether conclusive. Not to mention, how many people use recipes? And of those who do, how many follow them exactly? All factors to be considered, but it&#8217;s still not welcomed news.<\/p>\n<p>(via: <a title=\"recipes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hdx0k6uE-r5N6VAl3Mdhgt4khmkAD96CTIS00\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portion distortion isn&#8217;t just exclusive to your dining destinations, be it fast food or otherwise. A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that it&#8217;s spilled over into the recipe books, too! The study looked at how classic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/02\/the-joy-of-cooking-super-sized\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695,16],"tags":[2877,520,31,1002,29,708],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","category-recipes","tag-calorie-counting","tag-cooking","tag-health-news","tag-joy-of-cooking","tag-nutrition","tag-portion-control"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5958,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions\/5958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}