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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was-easier-to-be-skinny-in-the-1980s/407974/]Why Was It Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s?[/url]

[i]A new study finds that people today who eat and exercise the same amount as people 20 years ago are still fatter...[/i]

Something is definitely up with our food supply.

I watch my diet pretty stringently here in the States -- no grain, no starch, no sugar -- because otherwise I'd be thirty pounds heavier.

And then I go to Europe on holiday and eat ALLL the grains, starch, and sugar -- sometimes while on road trips, so no walking or real exercise -- and I come back a couple of pounds [i]lighter.[/i]

I don't know what, exactly, but there's something very, very bad in our food supply.[/quote]

I posted a few pages back about taking a trip to the french countryside and eating cheese, croissants, and wine for 3 weeks and coming back lighter.  It's so, so unfair and makes me truly furious that I (and probably my kids, in 20 years) will try so hard to eat healthy and do everything right and I'm still carrying an extra 10 pounds, but if we literally just lived in Europe I'd not only lose the 10lb I need to lose but if I tried to eat as healthy as I do here, I'd be SKINNY!  I have a French friend who moved here and immediately gained 20lb, in her first 2 years here.  She blamed it on not walking as much.  But we still live in a city and she walks plenty.  She laments how she used to have croissant for breakfast with her coffee and now she'd never dare.  It's truly infuriating. [/quote]

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