My experience with living in Germany during the sixties was that, in some circles, if a man was thin, his wife was blamed for not feeding him properly. The death rate from obesity was quite high. Not so much today. When I went on my occasional diet over there to reduce the blubber from eating all that rich food, my motherinlaw would ask my wife why she was allowing me to do that, I looked sickly. I needed good food. Even today, whenever you visit someone, out comes the innumerable Torts, all with sahne, and it is an insult if you do not eat at least two huge pieces. If you visit two or three different people in one day, out they come again, and tradition says you must. Ralf At 05:45 AM 6/15/01 -0500, you wrote: >Dorie, >You are right that the Germans do a lot more walking than we do. I have >often wondered if that might be one of the reasons their heart disease rates >are lower than ours. Also, I don't think they eat as much junk food as we >do and they don't snack on it all the time the way Americans do. Most of >their food is prepared fresh from "scratch" every day. Not many prepackaged >mixes are used. >Chris > > > > > >Isn't it true that Germans, and most Europeans, get much more exercise than >we do in the US?? Maybe that's why heart disease rates are lower there. It >seemed to me that they did a lot more walking than we do here. > > >==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== >Check the German Food list out at: >GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: >GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com and add the word SUBSCRIBE in the message and send. > >============================== >Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 >

Friends of ours from Germany who came to visit a few years ago, were shocked at how much red meat we eat here, and they were very particular about their diet--this was on older couple. At the same time, they would down a whole big bottle of wine at every meal, and my mother kept having to run to the store for more! And I was amazed to see that the wife cut her husband's meat for him at every meal. I'm not sure if he expected it, or she was babying him and he just accepted it! Dorie ----- Original Message ----- From: <lumby@air.on.ca> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:08 AM Subject: RE: [GERMAN-LIFE] Eels, snails, and other yummy things > My experience with living in Germany during the sixties was that, in some > circles, if a man was thin, his wife was blamed for not feeding him > properly. The death rate from obesity was quite high. Not so much today. > > When I went on my occasional diet over there to reduce the blubber from > eating all that rich food, my motherinlaw would ask my wife why she was > allowing me to do that, I looked sickly. I needed good food. > Even today, whenever you visit someone, out comes the innumerable Torts, > all with sahne, and it is an insult if you do not eat at least two huge > pieces. If you visit two or three different people in one day, out they > come again, and tradition says you must. > > Ralf > > > > > At 05:45 AM 6/15/01 -0500, you wrote: > >Dorie, > >You are right that the Germans do a lot more walking than we do. I have > >often wondered if that might be one of the reasons their heart disease rates > >are lower than ours. Also, I don't think they eat as much junk food as we > >do and they don't snack on it all the time the way Americans do. Most of > >their food is prepared fresh from "scratch" every day. Not many prepackaged > >mixes are used. > >Chris > > > > > > > > > > > >Isn't it true that Germans, and most Europeans, get much more exercise than > >we do in the US?? Maybe that's why heart disease rates are lower there. It > >seemed to me that they did a lot more walking than we do here. > > > > > >==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > >Check the German Food list out at: > >GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: > >GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com and add the word SUBSCRIBE in the > message and send. > > > >============================== > >Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Complaints: > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

One of our fond family memories of my maternal grandmother and mealtimes in Germany is how she would always say to to us, "Es doch, Kinder, es doch!"--hope I've spelled that right. (Eat, children, eat!") She always said it with great emphasis and feeling. We repeat it even now, nearly 40 years later, at family meals. Dorie ----- Original Message ----- From: <lumby@air.on.ca> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:08 AM Subject: RE: [GERMAN-LIFE] Eels, snails, and other yummy things > My experience with living in Germany during the sixties was that, in some > circles, if a man was thin, his wife was blamed for not feeding him > properly. The death rate from obesity was quite high. Not so much today. > > When I went on my occasional diet over there to reduce the blubber from > eating all that rich food, my motherinlaw would ask my wife why she was > allowing me to do that, I looked sickly. I needed good food. > Even today, whenever you visit someone, out comes the innumerable Torts, > all with sahne, and it is an insult if you do not eat at least two huge > pieces. If you visit two or three different people in one day, out they > come again, and tradition says you must. > > Ralf > > > > > At 05:45 AM 6/15/01 -0500, you wrote: > >Dorie, > >You are right that the Germans do a lot more walking than we do. I have > >often wondered if that might be one of the reasons their heart disease rates > >are lower than ours. Also, I don't think they eat as much junk food as we > >do and they don't snack on it all the time the way Americans do. Most of > >their food is prepared fresh from "scratch" every day. Not many prepackaged > >mixes are used. > >Chris > > > > > > > > > > > >Isn't it true that Germans, and most Europeans, get much more exercise than > >we do in the US?? Maybe that's why heart disease rates are lower there. It > >seemed to me that they did a lot more walking than we do here. > > > > > >==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > >Check the German Food list out at: > >GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: > >GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com and add the word SUBSCRIBE in the > message and send. > > > >============================== > >Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Complaints: > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

Hi Ralf, I know what you mean. It was the same way when we visited a few years ago. Eat eat and eat some more. The drinking was something else too. One of my aunts was going through the change in life and every time she had a hot flash she would down a 1 litre bottle of wine! We also went to a birthday party for the same family, a family of twelve children, and a couple of my cousins had married American soldiers. The family found it great fun that they could keep up with the rest drinking German beer. Anyway the reason I wrote was because one of my aunts (70 yr) was just here visiting, and we took her out to many nice restaurants. All she ate was salads! Chris, Calgary, Ab ----- Original Message ----- From: <lumby@air.on.ca> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 5:08 AM Subject: RE: [GERMAN-LIFE] Eels, snails, and other yummy things > My experience with living in Germany during the sixties was that, in some > circles, if a man was thin, his wife was blamed for not feeding him > properly. The death rate from obesity was quite high. Not so much today. > > When I went on my occasional diet over there to reduce the blubber from > eating all that rich food, my motherinlaw would ask my wife why she was > allowing me to do that, I looked sickly. I needed good food. > Even today, whenever you visit someone, out comes the innumerable Torts, > all with sahne, and it is an insult if you do not eat at least two huge > pieces. If you visit two or three different people in one day, out they > come again, and tradition says you must. > > Ralf > > > > > At 05:45 AM 6/15/01 -0500, you wrote: > >Dorie, > >You are right that the Germans do a lot more walking than we do. I have > >often wondered if that might be one of the reasons their heart disease rates > >are lower than ours. Also, I don't think they eat as much junk food as we > >do and they don't snack on it all the time the way Americans do. Most of > >their food is prepared fresh from "scratch" every day. Not many prepackaged > >mixes are used. > >Chris > > > > > > > > > > > >Isn't it true that Germans, and most Europeans, get much more exercise than > >we do in the US?? Maybe that's why heart disease rates are lower there. It > >seemed to me that they did a lot more walking than we do here. > > > > > >==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > >Check the German Food list out at: > >GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: > >GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com and add the word SUBSCRIBE in the > message and send. > > > >============================== > >Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Complaints: > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > >