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I think you should work through these thoughts with a trusted confidant in private! Your sense of embarrassment needs some fine tuning before you continue doing this in a public forum.
Spoken like a true frog. FYI your own frog intellectual hacks think that "psychotherapy" should look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoanalysis
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This is the key distinction IMO. The French smoke and drink and eat crap food just like everyone else. They just don't mess about in my experience. If you are fat, you are fat. You're not body positive, you're not big boned, you don't have a slow metabolism, you're not in a food desert, you're not even obese, you're just fat. Sort it out. They're not afraid of calling a spade a spade. It really is that simple when yo…
> food desert There are absolutely places, at least here in the U.S., where food deserts really are a thing though. I live in the south and there are places here where you can't buy fresh produce for miles. I don't live in such a place but I've been to these kinds of places.
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This is the key distinction IMO. The French smoke and drink and eat crap food just like everyone else. They just don't mess about in my experience. If you are fat, you are fat. You're not body positive, you're not big boned, you don't have a slow metabolism, you're not in a food desert, you're not even obese, you're just fat. Sort it out. They're not afraid of calling a spade a spade. It really is that simple when yo…
> food desert There are absolutely places, at least here in the U.S., where food deserts really are a thing though. I live in the south and there are places here where you can't buy fresh produce for miles. I don't live in such a place but I've been to these kinds of places.
As someone living in France, there's something which doesn't get enough attention. Everyone in France (okay, almost everyone) "does sport". It's drilled into kids that they need to have some sort of physical activity, and it's one of the things people getting to know each other ask one another - what sort of sport do you take a part in. There are "hype" sports like wall climbing, quite popular in some of the big citi…
The calories burned playing a five a side football match aren't that big a deal, neither is the BMR adjustment from going to the gym unless you really go hard on it. It makes a difference, yes, but it's not the real key.
What matters is that it forces you to be to some degree mindful about what you are eating, because most sports become really shit and unenjoyable if you are out of shape, you can literally see and feel your performance decreasing.
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Have you seen the Deep South? At some point the majority literally "outweighs" and forces it into acceptability despite it's abhorrence. Similar to how accepted circumcision is despite how fucked it is when one thinks about it.
How many obese people do you see on Fox News?
I have eaten quite well over there including foods that aren’t exactly healthy.
I never gained weight while in France. I often come back having lost weight. My exercise isn’t consistent there either.
I suspect it’s the quality of the ingredients and the cuisine.
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>....why much of SE/east asia is super thin despite a heavily rice based diet. I would say: ....why much of SE/east asia is super thin because of a heavily rice based diet.
If you replace their rice by the white rice you find in the US, it would turn in a 'despite'.
I imagine this is the classic Hacker News "everyone reads the title but not the article" effect, but the question posed here isn't why is France's obesity rate low. It's lower than global leaders like Egypt and the US but that's true in a lot of places. However, in those places, including places like India and China being cited in other comments, as well as places like Japan with historically very low rates, they've…
I wonder if there's some food additive they banned at around that time...
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India is dodging the obesity trend? India has one of the fastest growing rated of diabetes and obesity, as observed with economies where incomes are rising across the board. Not to mention Indian food being extremely unhealthy in general across the board (save for some vegetarian cuisines). China is also seeing an uptick in obesity rates and diabetes, etc as more folks move from rice carbs to sugars, and from veggies…
> Not to mention Indian food being extremely unhealthy in general across the board (save for some vegetarian cuisines) So, except for the majority of it? A lot of Indians are strict vegetarians and even among the meat eaters, they still generally eat a lot of non-meat dishes.
To add to the point about milk fat, butter has been shown to not be much related to heart disease in observational studies (/study) [2], which is not the case for eggs despite popular belief supporting eggs as gram-for-gram being healthier than butter.