holy contradictions batman

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http://frenchfood.about.com/od/frenchdiethealth/fr/frenchwomdiet.htm

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What's the Secret?

[...]

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it's quality and
pleasure, not avoidance and deprivation.

Absolutely.

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"You owe it to your loved
ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures," she
tells us. We must take delight in life, and not give in to our
oh-so-American way of quickly eating low quality food while reading or
watching TV. We must "maximize the rewards of pleasure...of sensual
awareness" and control the quality and quantity of the food and drink
we consume. Fresh ingredients paired with slow, sensual eating and
drinking is key.

I couldn't agree more.

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Forget about those American sodas filled with sugar,

[...]

Not just American, alas!

My diet consists of ice cream, cheese, butter, yogurt, coconut
products, bread I make myself (no whole grains, hardly any fat
content), fruit, dark chocolate, boiled eggs, and some minor
constituents used for flavor, along with Celtic Sea salt. I am about
5'9" tall and about 130 pounds (after recovering from the malabsorption
of 2000-2001). All of the dairy is whole milk. Most of the food is
organic. Everyone else in my family is "obese." The differences in
diet are: they eat meat and they consume plenty of refined, highly
unsaturated oils.

montygram said:

I am about
5'9" tall and about 130 pounds (after recovering from the malabsorption
of 2000-2001).

That is what a female should weigh. You are not a man. You obviously
are a pathetically frail individual just holding onto life by a thread.

You have my condolences.

TC said:

http://frenchfood.about.com/od/frenchdiethealth/fr/frenchwomdiet.htm

French Women Don't Get Fat

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From Debra F.Weber,

Your Guide to French Cuisine.
Review by Kathryn Morton

Women on American low-carb diets like Atkins beware! This book uses
common sense and lifestyle habits instead of avoidance to help us lose
weight. No negative thoughts about the French here. It's refreshing
to read Mrs. Guiliano's positive perspective of the joys of food and
drink. She tells us that, as Americans, we need to "assess"
ourselves personally instead of "following a diet."

Contradiction #1 - even though obesity is a diet issue, ignore diet and
"assess" yourself.

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She lived it
Guiliano has the advantage of having lived both in France, where she
was born, and America, where she spends most of her time now as
president and CEO of Clicquot, Inc. in New York. She is also director
of the champagne house, Veuve Clicquot. Even though she comes from a
privileged background (which she readily relates), she knows what

What does a privileged background have to do with anything?

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she's talking about, having gained 20 pounds after spending a year as
a young woman in America. Upon her return to France, her family was
shocked at her "sack of potatoes" appearance. Fed up with her fat
silhouette, she connected with family doctor, Dr. Miracle, who guided
her back to her the pleasures of French eating habits. She gets our
attention and the reader immediately respects her story.

What's the Secret?
What's the French secret? According to Guiliano, it's quality and
pleasure, not avoidance and deprivation. "You owe it to your loved
ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures," she
tells us. We must take delight in life, and not give in to our
oh-so-American way of quickly eating low quality food while reading or
watching TV. We must "maximize the rewards of pleasure...of sensual
awareness" and control the quality and quantity of the food and drink
we consume. Fresh ingredients paired with slow, sensual eating and
drinking is key. Forget about those American sodas filled with sugar,
we all need to drink lots of water.

In other words enjoy food. The unspoken assumption (that happens to be
correct) is that good food is real food. Fresh whole foods prepared
with the minimum of processing. Good healthy meats and fats and fresh
whole carbs, as french cuisine is known for, and relish it all.

And, oh yeah, cut out the [censored] carbs.

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Guiliano intersperses tried and true recipes, a little history of food
(chocolate in particular) and family stories that give credence to her
writing. Being a Francophile myself, I was thrilled to see snippets of
French language and culture sprinkled throughout the book. For the
reader who doesn't know French, she thoughtfully places the English
translation after the French phrases.

whoop dee dooo. ohh laa laaaaaa. Then she'll like me, I'm French by
birth and first language.

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If you've tried the popular American Atkins diet (as I have), you
know that it does not include moderation and it's just not healthy to
continue eating all that fat.

Obviously she has never properly acquainted herself with the Atkins
diet. And the French diet is Atkins. And they eat "all that fat" and
then some. And it moderates crappy modern refined carbs. There is your
moderation.

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Moderation, balance, exercise, plenty of
water, and very fresh ingredients are the reasons why French women
don't get fat.

The French eat copious amounts of healthy animal fats and fewer refined
carbs than the SAD diet.

There is little moderation in the French's fat consumption. And the
balance is not what the American Food pyramid preaches.

Fresh ingredients is key. Boxed cereals are not fresh ingredients. Nor
is boxed pasta. Nor is soda. Nor is potato chips. Nor are twinkies. Nor
are most carbs produced by the food industry in the US.

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Au revoir to over-indulgence and deprivation, bonjour
la joie de vivre!

Say au revoir to over-indulgence of carbs and deprivation of fats and
you have something.

TC

You keep saying that you don't eat omega 3's but your statement below completely
contradicts your claim. Why don't you wake up and learn something instead of
making claims that contradict each other. Check out

http://www.nutritiondata.com/

and get your facts straight.

You probably won't because you just like to see your handle in print whether or
not your messsages make sense.

Ora

montygram said:

My diet consists of ice cream, cheese, butter, yogurt, coconut
products, bread I make myself (no whole grains, hardly any fat
content), fruit, dark chocolate, boiled eggs, and some minor
constituents used for flavor, along with Celtic Sea salt. I am about
5'9" tall and about 130 pounds (after recovering from the malabsorption
of 2000-2001). All of the dairy is whole milk. Most of the food is
organic. Everyone else in my family is "obese." The differences in
diet are: they eat meat and they consume plenty of refined, highly
unsaturated oils.

An alternative viewpoint.

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=50512006

Excerpt:

French women do get fat
GILLIAN BOWDITCH
Would you look younger if you came from Japan? Or be happier as a
Brazilian? We examine modern stereotypes for traces of myth or
reality

In heaven, says the old and decidedly non-PC joke, policemen are
English, mechanics are German, cooks are French, hotel keepers are
Swiss and lovers are Italian. In hell, policemen are German, car
mechanics French, cooks English, hotel keepers Italian and lovers
Swiss.

National stereotypes were meant to have gone the way of bowler hats
and the British Empire. They are a throwback to a less enlightened
era when Lord Baden-Powell could unblushingly opine in Scouting for
Boys that the way to tell a foreigner was by looking at his shoes.
The new empire builders are global brands. Disney, Nike and
McDonald's are meant to have melded into an international soup.
We're all inhabitants of the global village now.

Yet the latest publishing phenomenon plays entirely on the notion
that the inhabitants of a country share certain traits. Scots-born
writer AA Gill has stirred up huge controversy (and sales) with The
Angry Island: Hunting the English, which portrays the English as "a
lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd".
But it is new, positive stereotypes of women that are raking in the
cash faster than you can say "German with a beach towel".

Hot on the kitten heels of Mireille Guiliano's bestseller, French
Women Don't Get Fat, comes Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat by
husband and wife team William Doyle and Naomi Moriyama, hyped as the
hit diet book of 2006. So do national stereotypes have an upside?
Let's take a look at the claims.

THE CLAIM French women don't get fat

THE CASE FOR Catherine Deneuve, Edith Piaf, Isabelle Adjani

THE CASE AGAINST Brigitte Bardot, no end of femmes de la maison

MYTH OR REALITY Myth

mikeV

( PS The Brazilians take the award)

Statistics have shown that most countries other than Canada and England
has much lower rates of obesity. And France is only lately starting to
have a significant increase in obesity, kinda like where the US was in
the mid to late 1970's when hfcs started becoming ubiquitous in the
diet, as is happening now in France.

TC

MikeV said:

An alternative viewpoint.

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=50512006

Excerpt:

French women do get fat
GILLIAN BOWDITCH
Would you look younger if you came from Japan? Or be happier as a
Brazilian? We examine modern stereotypes for traces of myth or
reality

In heaven, says the old and decidedly non-PC joke, policemen are
English, mechanics are German, cooks are French, hotel keepers are
Swiss and lovers are Italian. In hell, policemen are German, car
mechanics French, cooks English, hotel keepers Italian and lovers
Swiss.

National stereotypes were meant to have gone the way of bowler hats
and the British Empire. They are a throwback to a less enlightened
era when Lord Baden-Powell could unblushingly opine in Scouting for
Boys that the way to tell a foreigner was by looking at his shoes.
The new empire builders are global brands. Disney, Nike and
McDonald's are meant to have melded into an international soup.
We're all inhabitants of the global village now.

Yet the latest publishing phenomenon plays entirely on the notion
that the inhabitants of a country share certain traits. Scots-born
writer AA Gill has stirred up huge controversy (and sales) with The
Angry Island: Hunting the English, which portrays the English as "a
lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd".
But it is new, positive stereotypes of women that are raking in the
cash faster than you can say "German with a beach towel".

Hot on the kitten heels of Mireille Guiliano's bestseller, French
Women Don't Get Fat, comes Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat by
husband and wife team William Doyle and Naomi Moriyama, hyped as the
hit diet book of 2006. So do national stereotypes have an upside?
Let's take a look at the claims.

THE CLAIM French women don't get fat

THE CASE FOR Catherine Deneuve, Edith Piaf, Isabelle Adjani

THE CASE AGAINST Brigitte Bardot, no end of femmes de la maison

MYTH OR REALITY Myth

mikeV

( PS The Brazilians take the award)