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WATCHING CALORIES The Center for Architecture presents “Value Meal: Design and (over)Eating,” an exhibit that addresses the obesity epidemic in America. Twenty designers were commissioned to create work “that makes consumers aware of what, how, or how much they’re eating.” The inventions range from mirrored tableware that gives the illusion of bigger helpings to sandals embedded with scales. Through Saturday, September 3, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Center for Architecture, 536 La Guardia Place, between West 3rd and Bleecker streets, 212-683-0023, free.


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