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it's the kind of food you eat as much or more than quantity.
this from my experience at least: i used to weight about 250 pounds more than i do now---to loose much of the weight, i just stopped eating processed food altogether and changed my relation to alcohol. i didnt immediately start biking--that came later. so if my experience is any guide, you can loose quite alot of weight simply by changing the kind of food you eat, and eliminating processed food seems to be a big part of that.
i made little adjustment in quantity, and retained my affection for ice cream.
i eat almost exclusively locally grown, largely oraganic food now---strangely, the emphasis on small production systems, diversified crops and no particular emphasis on chemical fertilizers has been a significant aspect of french agricultural organization. there is a supermarket-oriented mass production sector, but unlike in the states, it operates alongside the more locally oriented types of production--it has not replaced them. you could look at the movement in the states organized around csa's etc. as a return to what amounts to the french model.
feel free to call that model something else if your reaction to the word france tracks that of ustwo or seaver above, based on nothing beyond post 9/11/2001 propaganda from the bush people, during that glorious phase when the administration tried to argue that the problem with its case for war with iraq was france and not the case itself. by now, no sane person still believes that line of horseshit, but somehow the anti-france attitudes persist. maybe they are fun for some folk on the extreme right on their own. i cant figure out who would either know or care about such things.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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