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 find anywhere. Ever tried Amish fried bologna? Amish peanut butter? Heaven-sent, yes, but calorie-heavy is an understatement.
The thing with wider society is perhaps less about the calories that people take in, than it is about a sometimes mindless addiction to convenience. For too long, North Americans have treated convenience as king. It has its price.
18,425 steps a day | Amish America Comment on Who’d have guessed? (September 1st, 2010 at 06:07)
[…] This follows up another study on some slim-and-trim Canadian Amish. […]
Surprise, Amish kids are fit too | Amish America Comment on Who’d have guessed? (September 1st, 2010 at 15:55)
[…] study (no longer online) follows a previous look into the exercise habits of adult Amish in […]
Amish crack the corpulence code | Amish America Comment on Who’d have guessed? (September 5th, 2010 at 12:09)
[…] Canadian Amish keep it off, too Enjoy this post? Subscribe by email to get updates from Amish […]