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BookBrowse Reviews French Women Don't Get Fat: Out With Diet Foods, In With The 'French Paradox'!

French Women Don't Get Fat
The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
by Mireille Guiliano
Paperback, Dec 2007,
288 pages.
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You've no doubt heard of the 'French paradox'; the French eat well, drink well but still, in general, remain remarkably slim - how do they do it? Mireille Guiliano will show you how - and it certainly doesn't involve paying for overpriced diet foods, pills or any of the other products that Americans spend $50 billion dollars on each year (see sidebar)!

Guiliano's advice is far from revolutionary, but that of course is the point - she's not advocating the new extreme this or that, just simple, commonsense eating and lifestyle habits that will keep you healthy and fit.

Of course, a pedant would be forced to suggest that a more accurate title for Guiliano's book would be "Most French Women Didn't Used to Get Fat". The reality is that France is suffering an obesity...
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Mireille Guiliano's (Meer-ray Julie-ano) is the President and CEO of Clicquot, Inc. French born and brought up, she has lived in New York for many years. She is a champion of women in business and has been profiled in numerous publications. She is active in the The Committee of 200: A group of women entrepreneurs and corporate executives (445 in total) that Business Week once described as 'the most high-powered organization you've never heard of'.

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This review is from the January 10, 2008 issue of BookBrowse Recommends. Click here to go to this issue.
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