The French Paradox Solved?

The French paradox may be a paradox no more: A study that compared the diets of a group of French people and Americans (Parisians and Chicagoans, to be precise) showed important eating cues may be linked to the fact that more than 20% of Americans are overweight compared to just 5% of the French.

The French subjects weighed around 20 pounds less than the Americans in the study, on average.

The big difference in eating habits? The French stopped eating when internal cues told them too, such as feeling the sense of fullness coming on or simply not liking the food they were offered.

Americans were far less likely to respond to these natural stop-signs and were more likely to stop eating when their plate was clean or when their television program went off.

The moral? Start tuning in to your hunger signals and tuning out other cues and you could become effortlessly slimmer.

Related: Identify and Understand Hunger Signals

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