forget why french women don't get fat

[ital_gal]

What about the Spanish? Working in Spain and the food everyone seems to live on beer, and chips/crisps and baguettes filled with jamon (olives thrown in as veg from time to time). And yet they are slender (no, willowy) and lovely in a healthy looking way, and have yet to see a fat person (if I don't count myself)
Hanging out around noontime in this nice little cafe,,,I'm having tea and resisting the cookies. All the other tables have beer and potato chips (ok,and olives) and guess who the chubbiest person in the room is..