Fight the Fat!

The French love their food, so why aren't they fat? As my spouse said when The One won, maybe we should move to France--if we're going to live in a socialist country at least we can eat well. It took a Frenchman from Fontainebleau to convey this common sense--if you think you're eating light when you're eating out, you eat more. So forget the trans-fat labels and bans, this raised consciousness is counterproductive--just eat a sensible portion. John Tierney:

“People who eat at McDonald’s know their sins,” Dr. Chandon said, “but people at Subway think that a 1,000-calorie sandwich has only 500 calories.” His advice is not for people to avoid Subway or low-fat snacks, but to take health halos into account.[snip]

“Being French, I don’t have any problem with people enjoying lots of foods,” he said. “Europeans obsess less about nutrition but know what a reasonable portion size is and when they have had too much food, so they’re not as biased by food and diet fads and are healthier. Too many Americans believe that to lose weight, what you eat matters more than how much you eat. It’s the country where people are the best informed about food and enjoy it the least.”

So bring on the foie-gras, Chicago--just a tiny portion, please. Enough of this kind of nanny state lunacy.