FRENCH WOMEN DONT GET FAT

　　Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: theultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way youthink and live.　　　　French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry,drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In herdelightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets ofthis “French paradox”–how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy.Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view ofhealth and eating for our times.　　　　As a typically slender French girl, Mireille (Meer-ray) went toAmerica as an exchange student and came back fat. That shock senther into an adolescent tailspin, until her kindly family physician,“Dr. Miracle,” came to the rescue. Reintroducing her to classicprinciples of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of thelocal women, he helped her restore her shape and gave her a wholenew understanding of food, drink, and life. The key? Not guilt ordeprivation but learning to get the most from the things you mostenjoy. Following her own version of this traditional wisdom, shehas ever since relished a life of indulgence without bulge,satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals a day.　　　　Now in simple but potent strategies and dozens of recipes you’dswear were fattening, Mireille reveals the ingredients for alifetime of weight control–from the emergency weekend remedy ofMagical Leek Soup to everyday tricks like fooling yourself intocontentment and painless new physical exertions to save you fromthe StairMaster. Emphasizing the virtues of freshness, variety,balance, and always pleasure, Mireille shows how virtually anyonecan learn to eat, drink, and move like a French woman.　　　　A natural raconteur, Mireille illustrates her philosophy throughthe experiences that have shaped her life–a six-year-old’s firsttaste of Champagne, treks in search of tiny blueberries (calledmyrtilles) in the woods near her grandmother’s house, anear-spiritual rendezvous with oysters at a seaside restaurant inBrittany, to name but a few. She also shows us other womendiscovering the wonders of “French in action,” drawing examplesfrom dozens of friends and associates she has advised over theyears to eat and drink smarter and more joyfully.　　　　Here are a culture’s most cherished and time-honored secretsrecast for the twenty-first century. For anyone who has slipped outof her zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally leta carb pass her lips, here is a buoyant, positive way to stay trim.A life of wine, bread–even chocolate–without girth or guilt?Pourquoi pas?