Meal Size, Not Body Size, Explains Errors in Estimating the Calorie Content of Meals

Although most people underestimate the calories they consume during a meal or during the day, calorie underestimation is especially extreme among overweight persons. The reason for this systematic bias is unknown.To investigate whether the association between calorie underestimation and body mass reflects a tendency for all persons to underestimate calories as the size of a meal increases.Overweight and normal-weight adults estimated the number...