French Women Don't Get Fat
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French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure (ISBN 0-09-948132-4) is a 2005 book by Mireille Guiliano which claims to explain why French women eating in the traditional way are less inclined to be obese than their American counterparts.
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Guiliano rejects the notion of American yo-yo dieting, and instead lays out the classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of French women, all told through anecdotes and personal stories of success.
Her advice includes smaller portion size, savoring food to increase the feeling of satisfaction, choosing a small amount of high quality food rather than larger amounts of low quality food, and taking plenty of liquid such as water, herbal tea, and soup.
Guiliano says French women don't get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. Above all, the book outlines pleasure as a motivating factor in losing and maintaining weight. In an interview Guiliano admitted that "Of course some French women get fat. I find it obscene, frightening, that France has one of the largest number of McDonald's outside America." [1]
The book has been translated into 37 languages, with 42 foreign editions, sold over one million copies, and was a New York Times #1 bestseller.[2]
In 2006 Guiliano followed up the enormous success of her first book with a second, French Women For All Seasons.
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The author, Mireille Guiliano, was the president and CEO of Veuve Clicquot until she retired on January 1, 2007.
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- French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret to Eating For Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano – author's site
- Warning: food can make you fat (Guardian book review by Lucy Mangan)
- So which is the right diet for you? (Guardian book review by Amelia Hill)
- Like Champagne for Chocolate (New York Times review by Julia Reed)
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