Re: The Amish Paradox...long but a very good read.

[Guest guest]

>> Despite a high-calorie diet, an Old Order community's intensely

physical lifestyle produces a strikingly low rate of obesity. It's a

message for the modern world.

This does not surprise me a bit. I have a good friend in Illinois who is

Amish, and when I lived back home I would spend a couple of weekends with

her every summer, and the amount of work it takes to run a farm, a

household, and a harness shop is incredible, even with the number of

conveniences they have given in to. All the kids who are big enough work

from sunup to sundown every day. That much exercise WILL burn calories --

and most of us have never come close.

~~ Lyn