A Serving Size of Meat versus What You Get at a Steakhouse

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[dccd]

I’ve always wondered about this. Glad to finally know it’s the cooked meat we then measure, not raw.

[enufots]

Doctors are highly educated, but I find many of them poor communicators. If they meant "not to have more than 2 SERVINGS (each serving being 4ounces raw or 3 ounces cooked) per week, then that's what they should say and not to say "not more then twice a week". Twice a week means two days a week. If you eat 3x a day and assuming it includes meats, you'll potentially each 3 servings of meat each day and end up eating 6 servings in that one week. The doctor is suppose to know this and not the patient. It's like a teacher knowing teach high school math in grammar school.

[aramchek]

This doesn't take people such as myself in to account, if I'm working or doing anything physical, if I'm not taking in at least 6k calories a day, I lose weight unhealthily.

[omygod]

Portion sizes in America are really big

[carlstawicki]

Those who mention qualities like "serving size" should specify how the powers-that-be settled on how serving sizes were determined. I'd like to hear someone define "serving size" scientifically.

[marybachmann]

It is hard to divvy-up a steak into serving sizes. Can you imagine if you got three ounces of a t-bone steak in a restaurant? lol

[owelic]

just stop eating sugar and carbs and you don't have to worry about this shit.

[Peteruspl]

This is exactly why turning "servings" into a unit were a terrible idea from the beginning. People that have functional brains now need to do an extra step of putting it back to reasonable units, while the idiots are still stumbling around. If we had it all in grams or ounces, at least it would be obvious to count... and the people that don't even want to count, they were never in the reach of dietitians.

Reasonable measurements are per kg (or per ounce), then per whole package, then all values (including mass) calculated per 1000kcal of the product. Those can be compared, or can be counted.

[lifetobelived]

I never thought of it as in ounces. That's good to know. I had my gall bladder out in 2012 and I have had digestive problems ever since with constipation. Lately I am really craving meat but it is hard to digest. I'm going to the GI because I'm toast on the whole thing. I've never been a big meat eater but I think I need a little and since I crave it I assume I'm deficient.

[coldfingersub]

I actually like to eat mine raw like sushi. Sprinkle just a pinch of salt no dishes to clean no splattered grease on your stove to clean.