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By Matthew Rees

Thank you for all the nice feedback on the newsletter idea and the logo. We’ve fixed a few technical glitches. You can now access the Food and Health Facts website from this newsletter and there is a Twitter icon for tweeting out the correct fact. Every fact will also be catalogued on the “Facts” section of the website. And if you didn’t see Monday’s fact, it’s included below.

Food and Health Fact #2: Restaurant Portion Inflation

In the United States, the average restaurant meal today is more than four times larger than it was in the 1950s. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Here's Fact #1 from Monday:

From 1976-2016, the adult obesity rate in the United States rose from 12.2 percent to 36.2 percent. This was the largest absolute increase of any country in the world (except for a few small South Pacific island nations). Source: The World Health Organization