PITTSBURGH -- nearest time you go o...

PITTSBURGH -- nearest time you go out for that big burger bucket of fries and super-sized soda, bring along your calculator.

chiefly people underestimate the number of calories in fast-food meals -- a big point in dispute as portion sizes have ballooned, a just discovered study shows. People make more accurate guesse when the meals are smaller, according to the contemplation being published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Researchers asked 105 persons at fast-food restaurants in three Midwestern cities to estimate the number of calories they had just eaten.

In the secondary part of the study, society students were asked to estimate the calorie make easy of various sizes of fast-food meals. The meals, ranging from 445 to 1780 calories, consisted of varying amounts of chicken lumps fries and soda.

NO MALE/FEMALE DIFFERENCE

The outcomes were similar no matter in what way much the participants weighed or whether they were male or female, the researchers set up However, overweight people in the first part of the cogitation tended to buy larger meals.

"What this subject of attention shows is it's the amount of nutriment on the plate that's fooling people" said Dr Madelyn Fernstrom director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Weight Management Center

"This is showing human foibles. It's hard to estimate meat And it's really hard to estimate immense portions," she said.

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