RFI is not responsible for the content of external websites. If moderate weight problems have tended to decline over the past decade, obesity continues to plague the French population — with nearly one adult in every six now officially considered obese. The corresponding figure in was 15 percent, with just 10 percent qualifying as obese in , according to figures released on Wednesday by the League Against Obesity. More positively, fewer French people now suffer from moderate weight problems, the ranks of the merely overweight having shrunk to their level, accounting for just 30 percent of the population, down by two points from the findings.
To work out your Body Mass Index BMI , you simply divide you weight in kilogrammes by the square of your height in metres. In other words, by your height multiplied by itself. According to the figures released by the League Against Obesity , an organisation founded in with a view "to changing the way we consider obesity, and improving medical treatment of the condition," nearly half the French population is either obese or overweight.
Diet and modern sedentary lifestyles are major contributors to the problem, though there are also important genetic factors. It almost feels sinful to take an elevator. There's a strong culture of pedestrianism. The streets belong to the people, and that encourages walking. On a normal day, I can end up walking for an hour or more. There's so much to see. And those who don't walk use the public bike share. There is almost no air conditioning -- not in the homes, not in the offices, not on 99 percent of the subway trains.
The windows are actually open on the subways. There's no ice in the water or in any of the drinks and I don't ask for any. Travel isn't colonization. I think that discomfort is life unbound. But because of that discomfort, that constant sheen of sweat, finding a naturally cool place is a divine experience.
That day when I stumbled into Shakespeare and Company's reading room, it was like stumbling into an undiscovered oasis, like finding lost treasure.
Despite all the extra effort, I find that I consume less energy. I don't know that I eat any "healthier" in the sense of what "health" tends to mean back home.
There are fat and carbs all around me. There's butter in most of the dishes. It's nothing see a Parisian walking the street while inhaling a long baguette. Bread is served with every meal, but oddly enough, without butter, which leads me to believe that they think of butter as something to be put in things, not on them. I eat my fries with mayonnaise.
I now find ketchup to be too sweet. Without exception I eat dessert -- preferably something with chocolate. I eat a panini or a sandwich every day, but I don't eat any chips. You can find junk-food here, but you have to be looking for it. I don't really order out. I've stopped drinking Diet Coke. In general I eat a lot less, and I drink a lot more -- a half a bottle of wine every night.
But I don't think I've been drunk once since I've been here. I feel a lot better--more energy, lighter on my feet, a clearer head. Deals to write a film script and a novel have been made. Italian Vanity Fair wrote about her, and an Italian publisher snapped up the book.
The English-language rights have not yet been sold. What it means to be fat in France is for the first time up for discussion in France. I despised women like you all my life; my mother has always been fat. Thank you. There are many equally bizarre episodes in her life story.
Returning to the teaching job, this is how it ended: discrimination on grounds of physical appearance is illegal in France, a law that seems not to have filtered through to employers.
But I was finding it difficult and complicated to deal with. It was when I started looking for a job. Becoming obese can happen to anyone and it began happening to Gabrielle at Her mother decided her daughter needed to take emergency steps after Gabrielle came home from a shopping trip with a new pair of trousers in size 14, instead of her usual And I put on a lot of weight: 30kg in three months.
The weight piled on. All sorts of nonsense. She now weighed kg.
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