Bigger Isn't Always Better: Choosing Your Portions (Kids & Obesity)

Bigger Isn't Always Better: Choosing Your Portions (Kids & Obesity) by Rae Simons

This is a short kids book that blasts Americans for always wanting things bigger. Even if a big car or house is the same price as a small one, it is a worse deal because it will cost more to use over the long term. Similarly food portion sizes have grown in size. Today's small fries at McDonalds is larger than the regular fries in the past. And now there are additional fries larger than the small. Bagels and other foods have also grown bigger. (Interestingly, pizza is one food mentioned as holding on.) The book is a small picture book with a target audience of tweens. It tries to avoid fat-shaming while instructing kids to get enough exercise and eat appropriate portions. Interesting, it mentions the author has ghostwritten several books on dieting and obesity, while also writing numerous young adult books.