synapse xt You can use whatever food you like. My next blog will explain how. . French diets are tiny This restaurant is gyping me Now lets look at food amounts and how people joke about the small amounts of food the French serve in their restaurants. If you look at pictures of people from the USA before , you will see we were a lean nation then. Peoples plates were smaller, we ate less food, and we were in trim shape for the most part. Look at your grandparents pictures and those of your great grandparentsa picture is worthwords. People ate leaner and survived at a thinner weight. Compare a restaurant plate then to one now that you can get from Atlantic City or Las Vegas Buffets. Those plates are HUGE. In these days of supersizing, buffets, and large dinner plates, the mindset is quite different. We expect a full plate these days, and we expect second helpings of what we like. We like sugary drinks. And as a whole, the population back then wasnt as far off from what we do now in the realms of exercise and training. Sure, we have highly developed cross training and intense burning and core body exercises now, but isnt it funny how not many of these new regimens are different from the past Kettle bells are back in vogue for training Lifting tires. The only difference is our perceived eating needs have changed to explain the lean bodies of our grandparents to our own. Do you see fat skeletons of cavemen and women in the museums France has not strayed very far from its previous eating patterns. In fact in American Movies and commercials we are constantly making fun of the small portion sizes in the French diet. However what they are eating in portion is actually in line with what truly is needed. Just Google world obesity rankings and youll see where US and France currently stand. Youll see USA at aobesity rateout ofAmericans is obese versus France at Numberon the list with a . obesity rate Just less thanout of . The closest country to the USA, Mexico, is at , so we are WAY over the rest ofic the world in the USA.