Here are a couple of important definitions from the National Institutes of Health: 1  Portion is how much food you choose to eat at one time, whether in a restaurant, from a package or in your own kitchen. 2  Serving Size is the amount of food listed on a productâs Nutrition Facts label. So all of the nutritional values you see on the label are for the serving size the manufacturer suggests on the package. Once we understand the difference, itâs easier to determine how much to serve and easier to teach kids the difference between the two.
Yukon River, Five Finger RapidsE. Otto/Comstockmajor North American river that flows through the central Yukon territory of northwestern Canada and the central region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It measures 1,980 miles (3,190 km) from the headwaters of the McNeil River (a tributary of the Nisutlin River).
1 The Yukon has a total area of 483,450 square kilometres, including 4,480 square kilometres of freshwater area. 2  The majority of the land is forestedââ281,030 square kilometres. 3  Eighty percent of the Yukon is wilderness, compared to a North and Central American average of 41 percent.