French Paradox

Ok...this is the stuff that the Da Vinci Code is made of...what is WITH all the super skinny French people! Hello!!! I've eaten Croissants...I know first hand that it is practically IMPOSSIBLE to stop at one...but yet...all those French women are so thin!

I was reading an article on Oprah.com about this very subject.

Here's the cliff notes:

-11% of people in France have weight problems as opposed to a whopping 67% in America...man...that's crazy!!!

-America looks at food as bad and guilty...the French love food and look at it in pleasure

-French women DO NOT diet or live by the scale...if their pants are tight...they've overeaten. Period.

Now this lady wrote a book that has ALL the secrets...apparently women have been losing lots of



http://www.oprah.com/health/weight/slide/weight_french_101.jhtml