It's my understanding that the stomach capacity is unstretched - and  
that it certainly can stretch quite a bit to accommodate more. How  
much more? Well, the standard teaching is that an adult stomach is the  
size of an adult fist. So, picture your fist - now pile up all the  
food you ate last Thanksgiving (or other feasting holiday, for  
non-north-americans) - bigger that your fist? You bet! A necessary  
amount of food? Not at all, especially if you're expected to eat again  
in another 2 hours. Anyway - please correct me if I'm wrong, as this  
is what I have been teaching residents and prenatal classes - but I  
think the take-home is that all we have to do is fill the unstretched  
capacity for it to be a good meal, but that more will certainly fit in.

Kirsten Berggren, PhD, CLC

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