This is just yet another reason to learn to rely more on your own portion control, rather than some number that we have to trust is accurate.
When you buy a car with a six-cylinder engine, you expect to get six cylinders. When you buy a dress in a size 10, you expect a size 10. And when you buy a burger at a fast-food joint that’s listed on the menu as containing 500 calories, you jolly well expect 500. But you may be getting a lot more than that. The same may be true of the omelet and the pasta you get at a sit-down restaurant — and of the frozen dinner with the label you read so carefully before you tossed it in your supermarket basket and took it home.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1951798,00.html#ixzz0bwpwRgCF
more later,
Dan