French Women Don't Get Fat

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tylish, convincing, wise, funny —and just in time: the ultimate non-6\Qt book, which could radically change the way you think and live.
French women don't get fat, but they do enjoy bread and pastry, wine, and regular three-course meals. Unlocking the simple secrets of this "French paradox" —how they enjoy food while staying slim and healthy —Mi reille Guiliano gives us a charming, empowering take on health and eating for our times.
As a French teenager, Mireille (Meer-ray) went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. Fortunately, her kindly family physician, "Dr. Miracle," came to the rescue. Reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored tricks of the local women, he helped restore her shape with a fresh understanding of food, drink, and living. The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning how to get the most from the things... Tovább

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tylish, convincing, wise, funny —and just in time: the ultimate non-6\Qt book, which could radically change the way you think and live.
French women don't get fat, but they do enjoy bread and pastry, wine, and regular three-course meals. Unlocking the simple secrets of this "French paradox" —how they enjoy food while staying slim and healthy —Mi reille Guiliano gives us a charming, empowering take on health and eating for our times.
As a French teenager, Mireille (Meer-ray) went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. Fortunately, her kindly family physician, "Dr. Miracle," came to the rescue. Reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored tricks of the local women, he helped restore her shape with a fresh understanding of food, drink, and living. The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning how to get the most from the things you most enjoy. Mireille has ever since relished a life of indulgence without bulge, satisfying yen without yoyo on three meals a day.
Now, in simple but potent strategies and dozens of recipes you'd swear were fattening, she reveals the ingredients for a lifetime of weight control — from the emergency weekend remedy of Magical Leek Soup to everyday tricks like fooling yourself into contentment. Emphasizing freshness, variety, balance, and always pleasure, iVlireille shows how virtually anyone can learn to eat, drink, and move like a French woman.
A natural raconteur, she illustrates her philosophy in cherished personal stories: her first taste of Champagne (at age six), hunts for mushrooms and
bei'ries, and a near-spirilual rendezvous with oysters, to name but a lew. She also shows us other women discovering the wonders of "French in action/' eating smarter and more joyfully.
For anyone who has slipped out of her Zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, here is a buoyant, positive way to stay trim, a culture's most precious secrets recast for the twenty-First century. A life of wine, bread — even chocolate — without girth or guilt? Pourquoipcui?
c^Soni and raise J in fft^ance, Mireille Guiliano first lived in America as an exchange student and came back for good early in her professional career. She is president and CEO of Clicquot, Inc., whose headquarters are in New York, and a director of Champagne Veuve Clicquot in Reims. Married to an American, Mireille lives most of the year in New York and makes frequent trips to Paris as well as across America.
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"Delightful . . . Hands down, this is the best of the newest crop of weight-control books." —Nanci Hellmich, USA Today
"Part Proustian memoir, part guide to living well, part recipe for Miracle Leek Soup . . . Even the most skeptical and envious woman will find it hard to hold out against the charms of a beautifully written book that features both chocolate and love as key ingredients in a balanced diet." —Allison Pearson, The Daily Telegraph (London)
"Slender, elegant, well-spoken, sensible, and unembarrassed by the frank embrace of stratagems—just like the French women whom Guiliano holds up to the reader to admire and to emulate."
— Adam Gopnik, author oi Parij to the Moon
"I recognized things from my own French background and discovered quite a bit more. An important and fascinating book for all those people out there who've ridden the vicious diet roller coaster to failure." —Nicole Miller
"Not only delicious, but a true story from one of the greatest ladies in the world." —Chef Emeril Lagasse
"I welcome this break from the usual kind of quick-fix diet book . . . Its good sense is unanswerable — and, personally, 1 love the bit about not going to the gym." —Lynne Truss, The Timej (London)
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