hi Dave - I agree with you. The French know how to eat. They also have strict standards about what they make, and consequently, what they eat.

The packaged food in America, and not limited to America, has virtually no food component. It's made in factories ( a science), that is designed to have ...the perfect crunch, the moreish flavor, etc. That has people people coming back for more, and more. They are never satiated. Consequently they are also dying from the food they eat.

Once you remove all factory food from your diet, you drop weight, your markers for health improve, and you simply don't overeat.