BF>> In almost every restaurant here there is a special vegetable buff*, fr
BF>> take as much as you want.

 CS> Well, in the USA, it would be a salad bar.  Most wont bother to eat a
 CS> salad though or if they do, it's very fat-laden with cheese and bacon and
 CS> then a fat-filled thick dressing.  They take a healthy thing and make it
 CS> unhealthy.

We have a method called the GI method, have you heard of that?

 CS>> varies on that as well, but in Asia, the diet is very seasonal so varies
 CS>> quite a bit.

BF>> It is very seasonal in Greece for example but not here except in the s
BF>> when we grow our own vegetables. The rest of the year it's imported.

 CS> I can understand how that would be worked out there.  A differnce though?
 CS> How many have their own garden at home where you are?

Almost everyone. Remember I live out in the boonies

 CS> That one varies a
 CS> goodly bit in the USA but you have areas where 'everyone has one, at least
 CS> a few tomatoes' and areas where folks look at you odd if you even have a
 CS> tomatoe plant.

Many have tomatoes in buckets on the balcony.

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