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Well look at French culture and history - always focus on quality of the cuisine, the taste experience, quality of ingredients, preparing meal is often a family
by jajko 2y ago
Well look at French culture and history - always focus on quality of the cuisine, the taste experience, quality of ingredients, preparing meal is often a family/friends social ritual. Anybody who ever went through proper Michelin * experience can tell stories.
Naturally you put healthier stuff inside compared to some cheap quick to make fast food stuff. And if +- whole nation is having this sort of mindset, you see result when rest of the world is moving to cheaper-and-faster. Also, french are comparably fanatics to being active/outdoorsy (while having properly beautiful country to utilize). Good mix for good health.
Now why China and India see similar trend can be a different topic - their cuisine is good to excellent, but mentality, genetics etc is very different.
- fakedang 2y agoIndia is dodging the obesity trend? India has one of the fastest growing rated of diabetes and obesity, as observed with economies where incomes are rising across the board. Not to mention Indian food being extremely unhealthy in general across the board (save for some vegetarian cuisines). China is also seeing an uptick in obesity rates and diabetes, etc as more folks move from rice carbs to sugars, and from veggies to pork.
- seatac76 2y agoIndian food is not all heavy greasy curries though, I imagine the day to day cuisine is much healthier than Chicken Tikka Masala.
- BoredPositron 2y agoIt's more about what is cheap and readily available. Most indian fast food (like their western counterparts) is pretty bad.
- ilikerashers 2y agoHave Indian relatives and can confirm that lots of the home cooked stuff is greasy too. Fried sugar jalebis anyone.
- TheCoelacanth 2y ago> Not to mention Indian food being extremely unhealthy in general across the board (save for some vegetarian cuisines) So, except for the majority of it? A lot of Indians are strict vegetarians and even among the meat eaters, they still generally eat a lot of non-meat dishes.
- fakedang 2y ago"Some" vegetarian cuisines. What I had in mind was specifically South Indian Udupi vegetarian cuisine, which you'd find at Saravana Bhavans the world over. The vast majority of North Indian vegetarian cuisine is still unhealthy fried food, server with dollops of ghee.
- lm28469 2y agoPeople also tend to be much more frank and will absolutely roast you when you start getting fat. Everyone under 30 eats the same shit as in any other western country, we don't make ratatouille and boeuf bourguignon every day, for example we are the EU country with the most mcdonald's
- jicea 2y agoYou can also take a green salad in the standard McDonald's menus instead of french fries, and I think this is specific to French McDonald's.
- Celmfire 2y agoWe have this in Australian McDonald's also
- lm28469 2y agoSalads aren't always good: https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/assets/referentiel/file/14824055.jpg https://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/assets/referentiel/file/1482...
- jicea 2y agoYes it's not the salad as remplacement for the burger, it's more green salad without any meat that replaces french fries in your burger menu.
- throwaway22032 2y agoThis is the key distinction IMO. The French smoke and drink and eat crap food just like everyone else. They just don't mess about in my experience. If you are fat, you are fat. You're not body positive, you're not big boned, you don't have a slow metabolism, you're not in a food desert, you're not even obese, you're just fat. Sort it out. They're not afraid of calling a spade a spade. It really is that simple when you aren't surrounded by enablers.
- 2y ago