On 1 Nov 2006, at 10:34PM, Gary Nunn wrote:
In the last year, I've changed some habits, lost some weight and
tried to be
a little more aware of what I'm eating and what the portion size was.
About a month ago, my daughter and I went to Applebee's for
dinner. The
somewhat traditional thing is to get a salad bar and an entrée. I
ordered a
cheeseburger and a baked potato. By the time I had a salad and one
of the
rolls from the basketful they put in front of you while your
waiting, I was
stuffed. By the time my meal came, had I eaten anything more, I
would have
been miserable. It turned out that my "modest" cheeseburger was a
full half
pound of beef, with a huge bun, and the baked potato was also very
large. I
couldn't touch them.
While we sat there, I watched the people at the next table each eat
a salad
plate piled up with salad, potato salad, macaroni salad, vegetables
and all
of the other peripheral stuff on salad bars. This same table,
devoured 2
baskets of rolls between 3 people, and then devoured their meal
completely.
I've read before, that the US serves larger portions than many other
countries, but I was never really aware of just how much until that
night at
Applebee's.
That reminds me of the scientific study about why the French were
able to eat high-fat French cuisine without getting obese - the
answer was smaller portions!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3173997.stm
But now the French are having an obesity epidemic thanks to fast
food : "While adult obesity is rising about 6 percent annually, among
children the national rate of growth is 17 percent. At that rate, the
French could be - quelle horreur - as fat as Americans by 2020."
"McDonald's is more profitable in France than anywhere else in
Europe. Sales have increased 42 percent over the past five years.
Some 1.2 million French, or 2 percent of the population, eat there
every day."
http://tinyurl.com/yfz3jo
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