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Dr. Jean-Michel Cohen in the UK Sunday Telegraph/Australia Sydney Morning Herald
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by victoriacastillo (Parañaque) | Posted on 08/01/2013 2:29 pm |
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http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/diet-and-fitness/can-we-cook-ourselves-thin-20130730-2qvyj.html "Can We Cook Ourselves Thin?" Passages including JMC: Jean-Michel Cohen believes he has the cure for obesity. As I chatted to the French diet doctor recently in his large, modernist apartment on the outskirts of Paris, Cohen told me the answer was far simpler than anyone seemed to think. If we want to lose weight, Cohen said, we should cook more meals. Cook more meals? And lose weight? Absolutely, said Cohen, whose book, The Parisian Diet, has sold more than two million copies. Societies that cook more meals are slimmer and healthier. Like the French, for instance. Only 16.9 per cent of the French population is obese, compared to 22.7 per cent of people in the UK, who cook far less than the French, and 33.9 per cent of Americans, who cook even less than us. Of course, as Cohen points out, it helps if what you cook is healthy, with lots of fresh vegetables and high-quality protein. But what if cooking, in and of itself, promotes healthy eating? What if cooking, like a good recipe, adds up to more than the sum of its parts? ...But there are other more profound reasons to reclaim the act of cooking. As Jean-Michel Cohen told me, cooking is directly linked to the pleasure we take in eating. This is the happiness that comes from creating something delicious from scratch and more often than not, sharing it. "There's a tradition in France to enjoy food," Cohen added. "In many other countries, people just eat to fill themselves up." | ||
