"SERVING UP OBESITY? SUPERMARKET READY MEALS DOUBLE IN SIZE IN A DECADE"
The above is the headline of an article in a recent edition of the "Daily Mail".
It goes on go on to say "Products such as curry, cottage pies, pasta dishes and casseroles can be more than 50 per cent bigger than in the 1990s."
This is followed by the following table:
You can see that none of the products show an increase of 100% which would be "double the size"
One is 75% but, without that, the average increase of the remaining 21 items is 31.3% - under a third.
The writer seems to think that a 50% increase is 'double', which is a popular misconception.
You can read the full article at:
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You have to take into account that the calorific value of the meals have equaled out due to reductions in fat and sugars.