Portion Control or Body Shaming?

These plates are in the news today. Portion control tableware by a company called Pourtions, are the latest topic in social media regarding body shaming. These set of plates, bowls and wine glasses caused quite a stir when this Twitter post went viral: Alie Ward saw the plates at a Macy’s and asked the store in a twitt to ban them from the store, to which Macy’s replied they would! We have seen portion control plates in the past, I even remember certain federal nutritional programs gifting portion control plates, so what is the big deal about these plates? Here …

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