During the reception following the Jazz is Life presentation (Japan Society), I was speaking with Kohei Nishiyama, the diminutive CEO of Japanese design-to-order company elephant design, one of the speakers and mentioned the fact that I gained a few pounds and was eager to shed them.
He offered an interesting suggestion: share your food.
Upon reflection, it is an interesting way of looking at portion control, the idea of giving the food you don’t need to eat to others who suffer from hunger instead of becoming fat and complacent.
The Weight-control Information Network (WIN), a service of the
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
(NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health offers a Just Enough For You guide on food portions.
As Moliere wrote in L’Avare (1668), "Il faut manger pour vivre, et non pas vivre pour manger (One must eat to live, and not live to eat)".
Related: Size is not everything, Gospel of Cooking according to Jason Atherton at ‘Maze’ (London)