{"id":8625,"date":"2011-10-14T15:39:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=8625"},"modified":"2011-10-14T16:19:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:19:48","slug":"were-the-last-suppers-portions-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/10\/were-the-last-suppers-portions-healthy","title":{"rendered":"Were the Last Supper’s portions healthy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A study of historic paintings of the Last Supper show that Jesus and the Disciples were served healthy portions … at least at first.<\/p>\n

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Duccio di Buoninsegna's Last Supper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the centuries, artists have given them more and more on their plates, writes syndicated columnist Scott LaFee. <\/a><\/p>\n

It seems that in the most ancient paintings, the portions on the plates of Christ and the chosen Twelve\u00a0were appropriate for a healthy lifestyle.\u00a0Then, over\u00a0the last 1,000 years, the portions have grown dramatically — reflecting today’s overweight society<\/p>\n

LaFee\u00a0cites a 2010 study by brothers Brian and Craig Wansink pub\u00adlished in the In\u00adterna\u00adt\u00adional Jour\u00adnal of Obes\u00adity<\/em>. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Meisters des Hausbuchs' classic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Brian studies eating habits at Cornell University. Craig is a professor of religion at Virginia Wesleyan,” writes the LaFee. “They calculated the growth in Biblical proportions by comparing food on the table to the one constant in all of the paintings: the size of the apostles’ heads.”<\/p>\n

They considered\u00a0Last Supper paintings painted by such masters as Duccio di Buoninsegna (c. 1260-c. 1319), Tiziano Vecellio, better known as\u00a0“Titian”\u00a0(c. 1490-1576) and Leo\u00adn\u00adardo da Vin\u00adci (1452-1519) — a total of 52 paintings.<\/p>\n

They found that\u00a0over the years, the\u00a0por\u00adtion sizes grew by 69 per\u00adcent, plate sizes\u00a0increased by 66 per\u00adcent and the size of the bread\u00a0grew by 23 per\u00adcent.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think peo\u00adple as\u00adsume that in\u00adcreased serv\u00ading sizes, or \u2018por\u00adtion dis\u00adtor\u00adtion,\u2019 is a re\u00adcent phe\u00adnomenon,\u201d\u00a0wrote Bri\u00adan Wan\u00adsink. \u201cBut this re\u00adsearch in\u00addi\u00adcates that it\u2019s a gen\u00ader\u00adal trend for at least the last mil\u00adlen\u00adni\u00adum.\u201d<\/p>\n

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