"Somebody will come up with something new," she said. "There's a lot of creativity out there in Diet World.
American greed-driven creativity, that is.
First the media are flooded with hype about some "new discovery" about why people gain weight or don't, then they are flooded with a new diet scheme that is based on those "newfound principles".
The French diet plan is the funniest one recently. New discoveries have been made as to why French women don't gain weight. They don't gain weight because they know how to scarf down coissants and baguettes at precise intervals. So now American women will do that expecting to come out of the process looking like Bridgette Bardot too.
I'm no expert on diet or marketing or business, but it seems more likely to me that Atkins went bankrupt because their products tasted crappy, not because of the principles of a low carb diet.
On 3 Aug 2005 15:43:16 -0700, "Visual Purple" <[email hidden]>
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"Somebody will come up with something new," she said. "There's a lot of creativity out there in Diet World.
American greed-driven creativity, that is.
First the media are flooded with hype about some "new discovery" about why people gain weight or don't, then they are flooded with a new diet scheme that is based on those "newfound principles".
The French diet plan is the funniest one recently. New discoveries have been made as to why French women don't gain weight. They don't gain weight because they know how to scarf down coissants and baguettes at precise intervals. So now American women will do that expecting to come out of the process looking like Bridgette Bardot too.
Right.
Actually there's nothing funny about the French diet. The reasons for their not getting fat are quite simple. Its all about portion size and lifestyle. The French aren't food-phobic like North Americans nor do they eat the same quantity of food. Another thing is that they tend to be a lot more active. The portion sizes in North America are larger than the ones in France. Simple enough, huh?
RBR <[email hidden]> wrote in news:t5aqf1t2sjd134qf165mrj41o3jk2v7dj3@ 4ax.com:
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Actually there's nothing funny about the French diet. The reasons for their not getting fat are quite simple. Its all about portion size and lifestyle. The French aren't food-phobic like North Americans nor do they eat the same quantity of food. Another thing is that they tend to be a lot more active. The portion sizes in North America are larger than the ones in France. Simple enough, huh?
Too simple to write a diet book and come out with a line of "program foods." Remember that diet books are a form of self-help book, and that the best-selling self-help book of all time was written by L. Ron Hubbard.
But you're quite right. The French are eating "the wrong foods" but they're not pigging out. Americans are paying close attention to whatever food items are currently being demonized and not caring how much of everything else they eat.
