"Ron Hunter" > wrote in message
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> Axel Kurth wrote:
>
> > Simone Kerby wrote:
> >
> >>AMERICAN FOOD vs EUROPEAN FOOD
> >>
> >>In general, which offers a more healthy diet?
> >>
> >>Americans tend toward fast foods, either take-out
> >>or home cooking that does not take too much time
> >>to prepare.
> >>
> >>In Europe, people still spend hours over a hot stove.
> >>People still stop at the market on the way home from
> >>work instead of weekly or monthly shopping as in
> >>North America.
> >>
> >>What are your favorite American dishes?
> >>
> >>What are your favorite European dishes?
> >>
> >>What are your thoughts on the difference in these 2
> >>styles of cuisine?
> >
> >
> > now if you ask me, there is no difference between american or european
> > food, I have had great meals in either place many times. if the cook
> > is crap the food is crap in either location, if you like food
> > which tastes better after you ate it (Mc.. B...K.. etc) than you can
> > get that also on both sides of the big water.
> > what realy is the difference is the way and what they eat in the US
> > junk food fast food which feeds you on a fast road to the grave
> > that makes the obesety and unhelthiness you see so much in the US
>
> Not everyone in the US eats that way, nor does anyone force you to eat a
> burger and fries. I suggest that in any large US city you can find food
> to match, or beat, anything available in Europe, or anywhere in the
> world.

You can only dream of the quality of food we have and eat in Italy.


> You just have to find it, and be willing to pay for it. I
> suspect that the effects of a good brat sandwich in Germany is as least
> as detrimental to your health as a burger and fries at a US Burger King.
> And if obesity is so rampant in the US, then our lifespan would reflect
> it, but this is simply not the case.
> Nutritionists will tell you that you will live longer if you maintain a
> diet just short of starvation, but who would WANT to live 100 years on
> the edge of starvation?