Super-Size or Not to Super-Size your Meals?

This again is another article I found and it blew me away, so I wanted to pass it along:Super-Size or Not to Super-Size your Meals?
Nutritionists say the food industry is dishing out portions that are so big it’s almost impossible not to eat more calories than is in your daily allowance. Restaurants are giving customers what they want, more for their money. If a plate is put in front of you, the psychology behind it says you will eat it all because you paid for it. Just remember you’re not actually buying more food, you’re buying more calories, and in turn a unhealthy body!!!  That’s a real problem.
What does super-sizing your fast food meal really cost you in the end?
7-Eleven: Gulp to Double Gulp Coca-Cola Classic: 37 cents extra buys 450 more calories.
Cinnabon: Minibon to Classic Cinnabon: 48 more cents buys 370 more calories.
Movie theater: Small to medium unbuttered popcorn: 71 additional cents buys you 500 more calories.
Convenience store: Regular to “The Big One” Snickers: 33 more cents packs on 230 more calories.
McDonald’s: Quarter Pounder with Cheese to Medium Quarter Pounder with Cheese Extra Value Meal: An additional $1.41 gets you 660 more calories.
Subway: 6-inch to 12-inch Tuna Sub: $1.53 more buys 420 more calories.
Wendy’s: Classic Double with Cheese to Classic Double with Cheese Old Fashioned Combo Meal: $1.57 extra buys you 600 more calories.
Baskin Robbins: Chocolate Chip Ice Cream, Kids’ Scoop, to Double Scoop: For another $1.62, you’ve added 390 calories.
Do you realize for $8.00 more you’ve bought yourself an additional 3,620 calories. WOW! In other words by switching to a smaller size when ordering, not only will you save on calories you’ll save money too, and most importantly your life!!!
Side note, with the holidays fast approaching and I will have less free time, I am going to start to post my blogs every other week from now on, at least till the first of the year!   :)