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

#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?