{"id":876,"date":"2008-08-06T15:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/our-plates-overfloweth\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T20:00:29","slug":"our-plates-overfloweth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/our-plates-overfloweth\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Plates Overfloweth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans eat more than ever. That may not be a revelation, but it <em>is<\/em> interesting to look at the numbers. In 1970, the average American ate a little more than 16 pounds of food a week. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/0803-sbn-webmetrics-190.jpg\" title=\"obesity\" alt=\"obesity\" align=\"right\" height=\"126\" width=\"190\" \/>Flash forward to 2006, and you have the average intake at an extra two pounds a week. Imagine that: we are eating almost <strong>TWO POUNDS<\/strong> more food on a weekly basis!<\/p>\n<p>There are also some interesting shifts in where we get our &#8220;poundage.&#8221; Less milk, but more chicken. Believe it or not, less red meat and more vegetables, but still not the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/My_Pyramid\/\" title=\"food pyramid\" target=\"_blank\">recommended amount<\/a>. Check out the article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/03\/business\/03metrics.html?_r=1&amp;ref=health&amp;oref=slogin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"New York Times\">The New York Times<\/a> piece which gives the comparison in a nice graphic layout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans eat more than ever. That may not be a revelation, but it is interesting to look at the numbers. In 1970, the average American ate a little more than 16 pounds of food a week. Flash forward to 2006, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/our-plates-overfloweth\/\">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":[3687,3695],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-health-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","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=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}