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Wednesday, January 22, 2003
THE BATTALION
Study finds meal portion sizes growing
By Deanna Bellandi
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Americans aren’t just super
sizing their portions in fast-food
restaurants, they’re doing it in
their own kitchens.
In a new study, researchers
looked at such foods as ham
burgers, burritos, tacos, french
fries, sodas, ice cream, pie,
cookies and salty snacks and
found that the portions got big
ger between the 1970s and the
1990s, regardless of whether
people ate in or out.
It is no surprise it is happen
ing at fast-food restaurants; it
was McDonald’s that help put
the word “supersize” into the
American lexicon.
But Margo Wootan of the
Center for Science in the Public
Interest said the practice has
caused Americans to suffer por
tion distortion at home.
“We’re getting so used to
these big portion sizes when we
eat out that when we go home
we forget what a normal portion
is,” said Wootan, the center’s
nutrition policy director.
Portions for all of the popular
foods studied, except pizza,
increased both inside and out
side the home between 1977 and
1996. The study was conducted
by researchers at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
and was published in
Wednesday’s Journal of the
American Medical Association.
“An important point is not
just what foods we’re eating, it’s
the fact that we’re eating such
large portions of these foods,”
said researcher Samara Joy
Nielsen.
The findings come at a time
when Americans are getting fat
ter. A study by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention
found more than 44 million
Americans were obese in 2001.
Homemade burgers beefed
up to 8.4 ounces in 1996 from
5.7 ounces in 1977, while fast-
food hamburgers grew to 7.2
ounces from 6.1 ounces during
‘Small, medium, large’ now ‘large, larger, largest’
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increased in the United States The study looked at three national surveys
conducted between 1977 and 1996
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other than fast-food ones, ham
burgers declined to 5 ounces in
1996 from 5.3 ounces in 1977,
according to the study.
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Agriculture counts two to three
ounces of cooked lean meat as a
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By Lisa Falkenberg
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
They were on the same side 30 years
ago, fighting for the right of women to get
an abortion, but they have sharply con
trasting views today.
Sarah Weddington is the lawyer who
tried the case and became an icon of the
women’s rights movement. She is worried
that, as the 30th anniversary of
the U.S. Supreme Court’s deci
sion in Roe v. Wade looms on
Wednesday, anti-abortion forces
are gaining political strength.
“It’s melancholy celebra
tion,” Weddington says. “1 am
more concerned today about the
future of Roe v. Wade and a
woman’s right to choose than
ever before.”
The “Jane Roe” of that case
was Norma McCorvey. and a lot
has happened to her since the
landmark ruling. She converted
to Catholicism and has become
an anti-abortion activist.
abortion justice. State laws have chipped
away at access to abortion, and the
Republican takeover of the Senate has
raised hopes among those who oppose
abortion for more federal judges who
oppose the procedure.
In the past 30 years, the anti-abortion
movement has swelled while the ranks
advocating choice grew smaller, got older
and settled into complacency.
“There was a sense of we had won; we
could check that off
and go onto other
issues,” Weddington
said. “It’s a lot easier
to get people excited
and motivated and fully
involved in trying to
change something ...
than it is to keep things
the way they have been
for the last 30 years.”
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be overturned,” says McCorvey, sitting in
her Dallas living room, which is papered
with images of Jesus, anti-abortion
posters, books and bumper stickers.
The two women who made history
together no longer talk.
McCorvey said she is praying for the
woman she once idolized. Weddington
said McCorvey’s change of heart has no
bearing on the case. But during a recent
interview, she expressed curiosity about
her former client.
“What’s Jane Roe saying these days?”
she asked.
The balance on the Supreme Court
would tilt if President Bush could replace
one abortion rights justice with an anti-
for judicial waivers under Texas’ parental
consent law, said most of the teens who
call the group’s hotline don’t know about
Roe v. Wade.
“There is a population of women who
don’t understand that the rights could be
taken away and don’t feel a need to put
their energy into defending that right,” she
said.
Weddington herself yearns to move on.
After Roe, she became a state lawmaker,
then a general counsel for the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, an assistant to
President Jimmy Carter, an author. Now
living in Austin, she is a cancer survivor
involved in cancer research. She still gives
speeches about abortion but wants to focus
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room who suddenly changed her mind
about ending her pregnancy.
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erosion of what many women consider
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