French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

ISBN-13:	9780375710513
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/26/2007
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	122,302
Product dimensions:	5.16(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.66(d)

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that launched a French Revolution about how to approach healthy living: the ultimate non-diet book—now with more recipes.“The perfect book.... A blueprint for building a healthy attitude toward food and exercise"—San Francisco Chronicle French women don’t get fat, even though they 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—Mireille Guiliano gives us a charming, inspiring take on health and eating for our times. 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 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? Pourquoi pas?