Healthy Diet for May 29 – Enough’s Enough

You’ve seen restaurant menus featuring deluxe burgers with 8-ounce patties, hefty 12-ounce steaks, half a roasted chicken. That’s more food than you need. Five to 7 ounces of meat a day is enough for most people. You might enjoy it in two to three servings or in one bigger portion.

How much meat, poultry, or fish constitutes a food-group serving? Visualize a deck of cards. That’s the size of one food-group serving of cooked of boneless, lean meat, poultry, or fish—3 to 4 ounces.

Use this buying guide to help you shop right.