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Monday, November 30, 2009

The End of Overeating

Posted by pece at 4:57 AM

Did you overeat during Thanksgiving? Who didn't?
Do we stuff the turkey as a dress rehearsal for what's going to occur 'a table ?
I was planning to post this tomorrow, but when I saw
French Word of the Day
trop = too much
Nous allons beaucoup trop manger pendant les fetes. We are going to eat way too much during the holidays.
I thought this is a sign...
Last summer I lost 15 pounds because of this book.
No special diets, no daily scale inspections, no deprivation - it was effortless. Just changing the way I think about food and changing some acquired habits. That's it. Dr. David Kessler, when he was head of the FDA vanquished the tobacco industry. Now he'd like to set the food industry straight. Certainly he wants to us know how we're being manipulated to experience food as entertainment.
This is a good time for me to brush up the subject before I fall off the holiday wagon. And to share it with you.
I get emails from you:
"You must weigh 500 pounds"
"I always wonder how you stay slender with your sweet tooth!"
wrote Julie.
"Looking at PB makes me fat!"
etc. etc.
First of all it's impossible to hold a camera still and carry around a bunch of pastry bags.
And I'm too busy running down streets after Parisien pups...
Or stalking Parisien shoppers to eat everything I see or shoot.
Dr. Kessler does address the so-called "French Paradox" (page 175), He says in fact, it's a result of smaller portions and traditional social structures (no snacking between meals, structured meals), not because of infusions of red wine and dark chocolate.

Sorry folks :(

Look what the French provide for us? HMPH

While they eat beautifully designed salades like these...hmmm

This was often my lunch in Paris, from Chez Jean, 9, rue La Fayette (5 euros)

Kessler says it's the constant stimulus around us, the cues - sight, smell, location, time of day, that capture us. We need to cool those cues. To develope rules for ourselves that work. To make a "critical perceptual shift" so this picture doesn't leave us salivating...

And we can make do with this.

Please watch this video and tell me what you think.
BONJOUR HOLIDAYS!

 

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