What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (2014)
I don&#x27;t know if fast food is really a problem per se. Getting a lot of calories from a restaurant visit is quite expected. That&#x27;s why you do it occasionally and it&#x27;s often your entire meal for the day. Like the article says, whether it&#x27;s a fancy steakhouse or Burger King doesn&#x27;t really matter. And fancy steakhouses existed for a while, though.<p>I do, though, think that the US has a problem with portion sizes. A lot of the time, any given meal is just way too large for me. I just don&#x27;t really like to eat that much per sitting and sometimes I can get filled up on appetizers and I really wish there were smaller portion options in addition to the larger portion options at more places and I wouldn&#x27;t waste money by plain not being able to finish the food. Especially if I would have been perfectly happy being able to have a small plate, then a small desert, and a drink, instead of one giant plate that leaves room for nothing else.<p>Having a somewhat warped portion size may mess with peoples&#x27; heads, especially those who want to get the most for their money. It doesn&#x27;t help that the bigger portions are often only marginally more expensive. Even worse for women and children, who should be eating less in general.<p>That being said, I&#x27;m not really convinced the obesity epidemic is not a consequence of the average human syndrome and mental health issues and that the fast food industry isn&#x27;t simply capitalizing on that as opposed to causing it. I think counting calories and lamenting how people are not doing this or that is missing the point.