How I learned from a goose to slim down
Geraldine Farrar recounts shedding fifteen pounds by studying goose fattening for pate de foie gras and choosing exercise and air over baths and starvation. She rejects extreme diets and Turkish baths, travels to Munich, and adopts a simple, active routine, concluding restraint and movement helped her regain health.
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Goose Diet Inspires German Garden Tour Memoir
A narrator contrasts Ekoi marriage customs in Nigeria with a personal wartime exile, then recounts a two week to two month outdoors regime in Munich aimed at shedding weight. She uses a goose and its liver story as a cautionary parable and claims to shed weight from 140 to 125 pounds through outdoor living and avoiding rich foods.
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