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Meals get bigger in 52 'Last Supper' works

(CNN) – Has the meal in the "Last Supper" reached biblical proportions?

Two brothers, both college professors, think so. Using computer technology they compared the size of Jesus and his disciples to the size of their food.

And what they found is that in more than 50 of the paintings over the last 1,000 years the food got bigger and bigger with the main dish growing by 70-percent.

The study was published in April's International Journal of Obesity. Craig Wansink, the co-author of the study and a professor of religious studies at Virginia Wesleyan College, joined us on Wednesday's American Morning.