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Coca-Cola machines on campus now only offer 12ounce cans in a few locations, while the 20-ounce bottles are everywhere.
"A can is one serving," Beyer said. "Students don't realize that, when they start drinking a 20-ounce bottle, they are getting two and a half servings. A couple of bottles add up quickly and there is no nutritional value. All a person gets is sugar."
He said that fast food restaurants, such as the ones in the Kansas Union, sell unhealthy-sized portions, too.
"An actual bagel is two to three inches across," Beyer said. "The ones I see being offered are six to seven inches and have 300 to 400
with, such as the ones sold at the Wescoe cafeteria, are larger than the USDA recommended portion.
Jay Glatz, supervisor of the Union food services, agreed students were getting bigger portions.
"At fast food outlets, you are encouraged to get super sizes," Beyers said. "McDonald's hamburgers, for example, used to be the size of the kid's hamburgers today."
calories, which is not healthy."
The bage is that most Americans
"We don't go off USDA portions," Glatz said. "We are not following those guidelines. We are serving a generous portion of items for students."
She said nutritional value was not taken into consideration when menu items were selected.
"We don't work with a nutritionist to help plan the meals," Glatz said. "We don't feel that it is needed."
As this trend progresses, small items are becoming obsolete.
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Chapman said that local stores increase profit by only selling larger sizes.
"It is all about profit," Chapman said. "If they just sell large and extra-large, those are going to cost more for the consumer so they will bring in more of an income. The customer that always
loss programs had only been allowed in the past if the taxpayer had a disease such as diabetes.
Linda Webb Carilli, general manager of public affairs at Weigh Watchers and a registered dietician, said that the government's deduction was symbolic of society's recognition of the need for more institutions to support weight management.
got the small will just get the medium or large now."
With obesity spreading at KU and throughout America, the Internal Revenue Service has started recognizing this problem as a disease.
This year, an IRS employee said, obesity was diagnosed as a disease so that people could deduct the cost of weight-loss programs as medical expenses. The deduction of weight-
"The first step in solving obesity is that the government has stepped in and offered assistance to overweight people," Carilli said. "More institutions need
to make
noise about the
problem of supersizing. Obesity cannot be solved without an environment that puts pressure on fast food restaurants to support weight management."
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