{"id":462399,"date":"2010-03-23T11:10:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12590"},"modified":"2010-03-23T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T15:10:46","slug":"%e2%80%9clast-supper%e2%80%9d-paintings-show-how-food-portions-grew-over-millenium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/462399","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLast Supper\u201d paintings show how food portions grew over millenium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 537px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12591 \" title=\"last supper\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/03\/last-supper-527x269-custom.jpg\" alt=\"The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci\" width=\"527\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been  overeating our way through ever-larger portions over the past 1,000  years, a U.S. study revealed after studying more than 50 paintings of  the Biblical <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Last_supper\">Last Supper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study, by a Cornell University  professor and his brother who is a Presbyterian minister and a religious  studies professor, showed that the sizes of the portions and plates in  the artworks, which were painted over the past millennium, have  gradually grown by between 23 and 69 percent.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We think that as art  imitates life, these changes have been reflected  in paintings of  history&#8217;s most famous dinner,&#8221; <\/em>said Brian<em> <\/em><span id=\"articleText\">Wansink, author of &#8220;Mindless Eating: Why We Eat  More Than We Think,&#8221; said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE62M1HG20100323?type=lifestyleMolt\">Read the whole article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\"><span style=\"color: #005a84;\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at    RTRFaithWorld<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci We&#8217;ve been overeating our way through ever-larger portions over the past 1,000 years, a U.S. study revealed after studying more than 50 paintings of the Biblical Last Supper. The study, by a Cornell University professor and his brother who is a Presbyterian minister and a religious studies professor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}