{"id":256,"date":"2010-06-29T07:30:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2010-06-28T19:00:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T02:00:19","slug":"measure-up-bowls-an-easier-way-to-control-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Measure Up Bowls: An Easier Way to Control Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NutritionFacts Panel for Cereal<\/p><\/div>\n

While visiting the Natural Products Expo West Show in Anaheim, CA last March, I discovered a new product called the\u00a0Measure Up (MU)\u00a0bowl<\/a>. Measure Up bowls contain markings inside the bowls so you can see, in cups, how much cereal, fruit, veggies, chips, etc. you are eating. Recent studies have shown that we regularly underestimate how\u00a0many calories\u00a0we\u00a0consume\u00a0and our increased portions have to led to increased waistlines.<\/p>\n

Spatial reasoning is not one of my strengths and I am too lazy to drag out a set of measuring cups every time I eat, so I thought\u00a0an\u00a0MU bowl would\u00a0help me determine how much I should be eating when it comes to cereal. While most people eat cereal for breakfast, I typically eat it\u00a0in the evening after exercising. I am usually starving after a good workout but know that eating an entire bag of potato chips followed by an ice cream sandwich is not the best choice.\u00a0So I opt for a cereal that has some flavor and fiber to tide me over until morning.<\/p>\n

To the left\u00a0is the nurtitional facts panel for my cereal of choice. The label says 3\/4 cup equals one serving . In order to see how much I\u00a0actually eat, I poured my usual amount of cereal into a cereal bowl and then transferred it into the MU bowl. As I suspected, I eat more than one serving – 1.33\u00a0to be exact. So that means either cutting back on how much I am eating or multiplying the information on the nutrition facts panel by 1.33\u00a0to calculate what\u00a0I am actually\u00a0consuming: 160\u00a0calories, 7g of fiber, 7g of sugar, 5g\u00a0 of protein, etc. There is non-fat\u00a0milk involved, too, but\u00a0I’ll save those calculations\u00a0for another blog posting.\u00a0 I have yet to do this\u00a0experiment with ice cream as I am certain that my MU bowls would somehow mysteriously disappear. Thank goodness for those new single serve ice cream\u00a0cups <\/a>– they have saved me from myself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When it comes to food, ignorance is not bliss. Education is key and understanding portions is an important lesson.<\/p>\n

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Approximately 1 cup of cereal in a typical bowl<\/p><\/div>\n

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One serving size (3\/4 cup) in the MU bowl on the left, plus leftovers<\/p><\/div>\n

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MU bowls make it easy to find out how much you are eating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepwellfoods.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}