French Women Don’t Get Fat
The Secret of Eating for Pleasure
On behalf of: Kathy Robbins - The Robbins Office, Inc.
French women don’t get fat. It’s true. The empirical evidence tends to confirm it, and walk down the street of any major French city and your eyes will see it. French women have a system—until now lost in translation—and Mireille Guiliano, a born and bred French woman, knows its secrets.
As an exchange student, Mireille Guiliano came to love America but mysteriously gained 20 pounds. On her return home to France she suffered from “size beyond her peers’” until her kindly family physician (“Dr. Miracle”) came to the rescue. Introducing the troubled teen to principles of French gastronomy – the secrets to enjoying all edibles in proportion – he restored her shape while instilling a whole new awareness of food and drink. As Mireille learned, being thin and happy depends on appreciating and balancing pleasures, not deprivation – the unavoidable downfall of all dieting. Embracing and delightfully preaching this traditional wisdom with her trademark wit, she has ever since relished a life of plentiful indulgence-without-bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo. Now with her simple advice revealed in inspiring, real-life stories and dozens of recipes you’d swear were fattening, she reveals how you too can eat, drink and move like a French woman. And the best part: her do-it-yourself approach is within virtually any woman’s means.
Helping women to look at eating – and living – in a totally different light, Guiliano emphasizes foods of the season, personal preferences, presentation, color and variety to teach women a new agenda that can be maintained for the rest of their days.
A life of wine, bread – even chocolate – without girth or guilt? Pourquoi pas?
Reviews
“The perfect book…. A blueprint for building a healthy attitude toward food and exercise.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“This isn’t the ‘Guiliano Diet.’ Her book is about lifestyle. Forget low-carbs. Ignore high-protein. Too reckless. Too du jour. As she likes to put it: ‘French women think about good things to eat; American women typically worry about bad things to eat.’”—Thom Smith, Chicago Tribune
“Ms. Guiliano turns out to be eminently level headed. She combines reasonable thoughts about nutrition with a general endorsement of joie de vivre, and her tone is girl friendly enough to account for the book’s runaway popularity.”—Janet Maslin, New York Times
“This French Women book has just been released to great acclaim and, despite my aversion to the diet-like literature, I was won over… The great treat in French Women is that it isn’t a conventional diet book. There are no tables, no charts and none of that big screeching boldface type to encourage you to remember the book’s key nostrums. It does no justice to this book to reduce it to a list. It’s really about a state of mind.”—Jennifer Wells, Toronto Star