Last summer, Joan and I took our family to La Ciotat, a small village on the Mediterranean coast in southern France. This is the home of the real Mediterranean diet and we found it to be the most delicious and healthiest cuisine we have ever experienced. I also could not help but notice that the women of all ages tended to have small, sexy waists, and smooth and beautiful complexions. And it wasn’t that these people were fitness buffs. There was only one gym in town, and it was used only for playing squash. They didn’t get their toned abs from doing hundreds of sit-ups daily or taking some weight loss supplement. No, their beautiful flat tummies with the pierced belly buttons are the byproduct of an active lifestyle and a diet that keeps their hormones in the healthy youthful ranges. In contrast the average overweight American continues his or her futile struggle with the ‘Ab-blaster’ machines and Metabolife supplements while eating synthetic food loaded with trans fats and sugar and drinking soft drinks full of high fructose corn syrup and spending most of his day in front of a TV/computer screen or behind a windshield.
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