Fatty Food, Less Food?
Here's a crazy theory based on the following observations:
- breakfast foods pretty much amount to butter croissants, chocolate croissants, madeleines (soft chewy egg and butter cookies), and other small pastries like that.
- huge snack sections for yogurts (with all the creamy milkfat) and biscuits (butter biscuits, chocolate butter biscuits), and some chips (zero "low fat" or "baked" types).
- meal main courses which focus on sauces, or if you're me which focus on steak frite (fried steak, not even BBQ'd!).
- lots of chocolate bars (the lady in front of me on line always has one in the basket).
- pre-made sandwiches (at grab-n-go lunch type places) with healthy slathers of mayonaisse without exception.
- Relatively small serving sizes of most of these things.
- I eat this stuff, in the small servings, but then don't feel hungry the way I'd expect.
Theory: maybe fatty foods leave you feeling full longer, interposing on any need to faire de snacking as industry urges to do in the US.
Posted by amol at July 2, 2002 12:23 PM