French Women Don't Get Fat (Reprint) (Paperback) by Mireille Guiliano

About the Book

In her delightful tale, Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of the French paradox--how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.

Book Synopsis

The #1 national bestseller that launched a fabulous French Revolution about how to approach healthy living: the ultimate non-diet book--now with more recipes.

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?

Review Quotes

"The perfect book. . . . A blueprint for building a healthy attitude toward food and exercise." --San Francisco Chronicle

"A perfect, slim (and slimming) read for dieters and bon vivants alike." --Marie Claire

"It's hard not to be enlivened by a [weight-control] book that celebrates both chocolate and bread, and espouses such wisdom as 'Life without pasta? Perish the thought.'" --The Washington Post Book World

About The Author

Mireille Guiliano, born and brought up in France, is an internationally best-selling author and a long-time spokesperson for Champagne Veuve Clicquot. For more than twenty years she was President and CEO of Clicquot, Inc. (LVMH). She is married to an American and lives most of the year in New York and France (Paris and Provence). Her favorite pastimes are breakfast, lunch and dinner. Her books have appeared in 37 languages.