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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. They are skinny fat with clogged arteries.[/quote]

A black coffee or espresso and a good croissant is really THAT bad?[/quote]

So sorry to keep posting but you guys have really hit my sweet spot.  My personal experience is that, as an American I am a volume eater.  Europeans, even the overweight ones, tend to be far less so.  It is not the daily pastry that makes you fat but the combination of indulgences.  When I was eating a pastry every day with cappucc at home I weighed 130-140 lbs at 5'5.  Once I eliminated white bread, pastries, and cookies from my diet my range decreased to 110-120 lbs.  I never could stop myself after that one baked good; I had cookies with coffee in the afternoon and chocolate in some form after dinner every night.  I think the French can have the one thing and then just stop.  Also, smoking rates are higher there, which helps to cut appetite.  I knew more than one European woman who had coffee, a cigarette, and square of dark chocolate for breakfast, and then salad or just soup for lunch, and a single plate for dinner.  I have never been able to control my portions at any weight, which is why I now eat lots of raw veg.[/quote]

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