Almost Fit article featured on GetFitSlowly.com
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Have you ever wondered why it seems that the French can get away with eating everything we’re told not to eat, and still live 3 years longer on average, without exercising more than we do, taking 6 week vacations, and 2 hour lunches?
I’ve written a guest post this morning for the good guys over at GetFitSlowly.com. I mentioned their site briefly yesterday as one of my inspirations for Almost Fit, so it was really exciting when J.D. agreed to post one of my pieces.
If you have a few minutes, check the article out: Food, Drink, and Decadence: How the French Stay Thin.
If you haven’t already, you should also become a regular there if you are at all interested in improving your health. J.D. also writes GetRichSlowly, which is tremendously successful not only because the advice there is so sound, but his well-rendered honesty always shines through. He talks about his successes, failures, interests, and frustrations with great candor. Well worth adding to your RSS feed. Both are in my top 10 daily reads.
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I went over and read your piece, and it is very good. I’ve eaten French-style before, and everything was in small proportions. Its amazing how much of a difference eating in moderation can do. Although it may be better to eat healthier food than the French do, our inability as Americans to moderate the quantity of what we eat is what causes us to be so unhealthy.
Hi Tom!
Thanks - I worked on it for quite a while to try to consolidate the info a bit, and even at that J.D. needed to edit it (even edited, it was pretty long). I totally agree on the moderation note, of course. And it is an interesting observation on the fact that we are so poor at moderation in general - there is definitely some truth to the idea of accepting that fact a bit and working with it, rather than being stymied by trying to overhaul everything. Good food for thought .