18,425 steps a day
…is 13,425 more than Joe Average. Amish weight control secrets revealed here (no longer online). This follows up another study on some slim-and-trim Canadian Amish. Sometimes we need fancy studies to tell us obvious things.
Canada Amish
Who’d have guessed?
News flash from the Amish of southern Ontario: exercise more, and you’ll be thinner. It turns out that walking and working work wonders for the overweight.  According to an NYT article, researchers found virtually no obesity within a Canadian Amish settlement. Eyewitness reports attest to similarly slim-and-trim Amish in communities all across America. This despite one of the heartiest, fattiest, just-like-grandma-used-to-make type diets you can…