Are there fat French women?
Ladies, you can now relax and stop looking at French or Japanese women and feel miserable. It turns out that both French and Japanese women do get fat, despite books (like the one by Mireille Guiliano) that claimed that was not the case.
While I did not have the statistics but during my Paris vacation and trips to Japan, I saw many overweight (though not as many obese) French and Japanese girls. The big difference is that you see fewer fat people than here at home. But it could also be that you see fewer fat people in rich towns of metropolitan cities like New York, San Francisco, or Boston, where people tend to walk a lot more and are also more conscious about their looks.
In France, two out of five women are either overweight or obese. To put it in perspective, the case in US is three out of four. (Related: How to age like a French woman)
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