{"id":463927,"date":"2010-03-23T16:07:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T20:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20120a96b134f970b"},"modified":"2010-03-23T16:07:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T20:07:18","slug":"last-supper-paintings-over-time-reveal-a-lot-about-portion-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/463927","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Last Supper&#8217; paintings over time reveal a lot about portion size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandfreak.com\/2010\/03\/last-supper-paintings-over-time-reveal-a-lot-about-portion-size.html\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lastsupper\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834519bc269e20120a96b0ba2970b \" src=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e20120a96b0ba2970b-250wi\" style=\"width: 250px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out McDonald&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t the first to super-size meals. Artists have been doing it for a millennium in one of the most notable portraits in history. There&#8217;s a report out today from the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab in Ithaca, N.Y., which examined 52 famous renderings of the The Last Supper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/weightloss\/2010-03-23-lastsupper23_ST_N.htm\" >with surprising results about portion control<\/a>\u2014or lack thereof. The study found that between the years 1000 and 2000, the main-course size in the artists&#8217; work increased by 69 percent, plate size by 66 percent and loaves of bread by 23 percent. There could be a simple explanation, in that food became more plentiful and less expensive over time. Reflecting that in art would&#8217;ve made sense. But the results are being published in April&#8217;s <em>International Journal of Obesity<\/em>, so obviously they&#8217;re trying to tell us something about the sorry state of our waistlines and the role that heaping helpings of food plays in that. Still, I don&#8217;t see any chips, soda or candy in that meal or any overweight apostles. Not to get too biblical, but maybe we could learn a lesson or two from the loaves and fishes. In moderation, of course. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by T.L. Stanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out McDonald&#8217;s wasn&#8217;t the first to super-size meals. Artists have been doing it for a millennium in one of the most notable portraits in history. There&#8217;s a report out today from the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab in Ithaca, N.Y., which examined 52 famous renderings of the The Last Supper, with surprising results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463927","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\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}