bonjour
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1)The title "How th French manage to stay slim" makes me smile with th picture taken. The man is in a market of fresh products isn't that slim !
2)The extract from this text comes from a BBC Paris correspondant , Caroline Wyatt
3) Well,after having seen the picture, I was expecting to read more of our habits to buy on markets place fresh seasonal products to cook ourselves than buy processed food which is done a lot in USA or Great Britain.
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Ten % more obesity are found in Great Britain and a third more in United States compare to France
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According Docteur L'Hermite, our secret would be that we find time to sit down to eat three times a day eating slowly, taking our times. We don't snack in front of TV and we appreciate to eat in good company, taking our time to savour each single thing we eat surrounded by friends.
British chef thinks that if French are slimmer, it's because the portions served in restaurants are just very small.
le reste est à faire en groupe . Juste quelques idées :
Concerning the last answer, very few people can afford that type of restaurant.....
Concerning the answer of Dr L'Hermitte, I do agree, having a meal together, family or friendly is quite always a good opportunity. We sometimes chat more then we eat !!
If I consider myself and my friends, we're quite fed up with junk food and we'd rather have pretty good sandwiches. In fast food, the french fries always are cold, you have to wait too long.....
In the States, they stay in their cars because the distances are quite long. So they stop too often on drive-in to buy a hamburger even if they're not hungry. It helps time to go faster.
In Great Britain, I saw some documentaries and I was stunned that they didn't know anything about vegetables !!
They fry everything.
Obesity and poverty have a link between them of course. When you can't buy any more fresh products, all you eat is bread (sandwiches) and pasta or potatoes. And sometimes , some of them become alcoholics.
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People shouldn't be ashamed of being fat but they must worry about their health and be careful not to be in danger (cardio vascular problems, diabetes....)
Oh please, no a woman too skinny is the opposite of an obese woman. Anorexia is an illness which is hard to cure and often leads to death.
Fashion models too skinny who starved her selves should be banned from the catwalks and been cured by the agency's fee and these agencies should pay a huge fee "for "reckless endangerment" (mise en danger d'autrui) .They are responsible of their models and shouldn't put them into a pressure to loose more and more weight.
But they shouldn't been banned because some of them are naturally very skinny and this allows her to accept their very skinny body
I don't think fast food should be closed.... Others would find a way to recreate something different but not much better.
It's the population that should be educated
bon aprèm :)
