Why Don't The French Get As Fat As Americans?
Brenda @ Sun Mar 09, 2008 8:53 pm
if "food" in general was cheap, people would eat more healthy. I can honestly say, that veggies and fruit and bread and healthy stuff in Europe is cheaper than here in Canada.
Public_Domain @ Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:40 pm
BartSimpson @ Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:25 am
The French don't get as fat as Americans do because they have to stay in shape for the eventuality of needing to make a hasty retreat. 
mixedfarmer @ Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:42 am
Brenda Brenda:
if "food" in general was cheap, people would eat more healthy. I can honestly say, that veggies and fruit and bread and healthy stuff in Europe is cheaper than here in Canada.
It is cheap. canada and usa spend 9.7 percent of income on food. In india 39 and indonesia 50 % of income is spent on food.France spends 14 percent on food.
fifty years ago usa and canada spent 25 percent capita income on food.
Jul-19-2006 15:37printcomments
Americans Spend Less Than 10 percent of Disposable Income on Food
Salem-News.com
ziggy @ Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:47 am
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
The French don't get as fat as Americans do because they have to stay in shape for the eventuality of needing to make a hasty retreat.
Bacardi4206 @ Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:52 am
Bill_Hicks Bill_Hicks:
Brenda Brenda:
if "food" in general was cheap, people would eat more healthy. I can honestly say, that veggies and fruit and bread and healthy stuff in Europe is cheaper than here in Canada.
THat's the problem.Everyone in North America is hooked on that disgusting fatty sugar-high greasy slimy taste.
So the fatty shit sells better, so the prices end up lower.
Depressing, it's like no one eats a piece of celery anymore... Instead their wolfing McDonald Fries.
Actually people wolf down fatty things because they taste out of this world and are super addicting. Everybody who has ever had at one point a fatty meal pretty much at all time during his life will say that ever since he has always been craving them 24/7 for a very long time. Maybe it's something in them that makes them addicting, or it's just the taste? I dont know.
Very good tasting, fills you up, and fast to order. The description of a perfect meal. That's why people get them, also because all you see in advertisements are fastfood commercials. You never really see a salad commercial unless it's a fast food joint offering salads like wendy's does (Great salads).
If there was ever a time in NA for a movement to drop fast foods and go healthy. There wouldn't be a better time then now since a lot of people are obese which gives off health problems.
My mom use to be really obese, she still is but she lost a ton of wieght. Because shes obese, with the addition of her current health problems. Shes a heart attack waiting to happen. She can't do much heavy work or she would suffer a heart attack. Like shovel the drive way. I would buy her a snowblower but there is 0 left in all of Toronto, and pretty much Canada. News reporters concluded it, and I checked everywhere.
I think the next generation of people in NA will be a little more health friendly.