Colleges shrink portions, sneak in healthy ingredients
NORTH ANDOVER – Colleges trying to encourage a well-balanced diet have a message for students sizing up that all-you-can-eat smorgasbord in the dining hall: What you don’t know can help you.
More than a dozen Massachusetts colleges have recently embarked on a stealth health campaign – covert operations to address the chronic problem of overindulging students throwing nutrition to the wind.
Portions have shrunk at Wellesley College, Tufts University, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Plate sizes have been reduced at Merrimack College, where newly trained servers are sneaking fresh vegetables onto plates alongside meat entrees.