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Originally Posted by masraum
About 15 years ago, I had a colleague that was very close to the sponsor family that he had done foreign exchange with in France.
Per him, they had always been a healthy sort of thin, not fat or chubby. They went on an 8 week vacation to the US, and he saw them at the end of the vaca. He said they were all chubby after having been in the US for 2 months eating our food.
I have no doubt that the quality of the food that we eat is mostly crap, too much premade, fast/instant food that's full of crap besides food.
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Portion size in most restaurants is another factor. I am a pig, an I like to eat. Most meals at a restaurant I eat 1/2 of the meal and take the rest home for leftovers.
We had some friends visit us that were from Spain, on their road trip across the USA. They asked us to take them to a local restaurant that was we thought of as American food. We went to a local owned place and we helped them all order something different. The brought out the first plate and put it in front of the mom, and the family figured that was whet they would split. They were astonished at the portion size as each person got a huge plate of food. They all ate until they were stuffed, and had lots left. Hard to use leftovers on a road trip.