A couple of researchers have turned up more gloomy facts about our eating habits:

Reviewing all seven editions since 1936 of The Joy of Cooking, Brian Wansink of Cornell University and Collin Payne of New Mexico State University found the calorie counts for one serving of 17 of the 18 recipes that have appeared in each edition, including macaroni and cheese, beef stroganoff and apple pie, have increased by 63 percent;

Portion sizes have increased not just at restaurants. They've increased at home, too;

If you divide the number of calories Americans consumed each day by the amount of time they spend preparing food, Americans consume 42 percent more calories per minute of food-prep time than Europeans;

The average American spends half their food budget outside the home.

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