Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Everything is BIGGER now!

I found these interesting statistics in a newsletter from the American Institute for Cancer Research.

This shows the percentage increase in size of today's ready-made food items over their size in 1982.

White bread is the same size.
Beer- 28% larger
Soda-35 % larger
Hamburger, chain restaurant- 112%
Bagel, independent store-195%
Steak- 224%
Muffin-333%
Cooked pasta-480%
Chocolate Chip Cookie-700%

That means that chocolate chip cookies are 7x what they were in 1982. I know I'm much bigger than I was in 1982!

3 comments:

Cheryl said...

Wow. that incredible.

Crystal said...

So, the food got bigger and so did our butts! HA

Lura said...

Well, OUR butts did, yours is still the same!