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“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
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Stylish, convincing, wise, funny-and just in time: the ultimate "non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live. French women don't get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this "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. As a typically slender French girl, Mireille (Meer-"ray) went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. That shock sent her into an adolescent tailspin, until her kindly family physician, "Dr. Miracle," came to the rescue. Reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of the local women, he helped her restore her shape and gave her a whole new understanding of food, drink, and life. The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning to get the most from the things you most enjoy. Following her own version of this traditional wisdom, she has ever since relished a life of indulgence without bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals a day. Now in simple but potent strategies and dozens of recipes you'd swear were fattening, Mireille reveals the ingredients for a lifetime of weight control-from the emergency weekend remedy of Magical Leek Soup to everyday tricks like fooling yourself into contentment and painless new physical exertions to save you from the StairMaster. Emphasizing the virtues of freshness, variety, balance, and "always pleasure, Mireille shows how virtually anyone can learn to eat, drink, and move like a French woman. Anatural raconteur, Mireille illustrates her philosophy through the experiences that have shaped her life-a six-year-old's first taste of Champagne, treks in search of tiny blueberries (called "myrtilles) in the woods near her grandmother's house, a near-spiritual rendezvous with oysters at a seaside restaurant in Brittany, to name but a few. She also shows us other women discovering the wonders of "French in action," drawing examples from dozens of friends and associates she has advised over the years to eat and drink smarter and more joyfully. Here are a culture's most cherished and time-honored secrets recast for the twenty-first century. 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 buoyant, positive way to stay trim. A life of wine, bread-even chocolate-without girth or guilt? "Pourquoi pas?
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Product details
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (December 26, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375710515
ISBN-13: 978-0375710513
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.6 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
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This book doesn't really say anything that's not painfully obvious to anyone who's spent anytime in Europe and compared it to middle America, but it might be very instructive to those who have not had that opportunity.The first thing you notice in Europe is just how few fat people there are. Sure there are some stout/chunky people especially those over 40 but the kind of massive jiggling blobs (think Michael Moore) that are so common here, is extremely rare. Now, some ignorant yee-haws might like to say that's because they can't afford as much food as we have here, and there might be a LITTLE economic truth in that, but not much.The main reason is that in general Europeans live much closer to nature not necessarily in the sense that they dance in meadows all the time, but more in the sense that their daily lives are not as artificial and technologically-dependent as ours.For instance, they walk everywhere because they don't have the kind of urban sprawl we have and they have excellent and comprehensive mass transit, as well as environmentally friendly policies such as taxing the dickens out of gasoline to encourage people not to be so car-dependent as we are. (We don't have those things because our corporations would never allow the politicians which they own to do it.) On the whole they don't spend so much time vegetating in front of the TV or the PC so they do get out and get lots more exercise than we do.They also eat better food because their governments are not prostitutes to the agribusiness and processed-food corporations, so they have much tighter regulations which result in most of their meat and produce being organic and pesticide/hormone free.And lastly, whereas Europeans have a CULTURE which values *quality* rather than quantity when it comes to eating. In contrast, we Americans basically have an ECONOMY more than a true culture...meaning that the economic interests of the corporate elites who truly pull the strings in America are what mainly shape American "culture" through its ownership and manipulation of the mass media, particularly television. From childhood on we are bombarded and brainwashed by advertising for nutritionally catastrophic junk foods which we grow up to be addicted to, and are encouraged to eat in massive quantities. As long as these dirt-cheap-to-mass-produce, hugely-profitable-sell junk foods continue to rake in gazillions of dollars for those corporations, we'll always have them.The result? Gobble gobble gobble, shop shop shop, spend spend spend, work work work, worry worry worry, want want want---that is the true engine of our world-dominating economy!God bless capitalism, and God bless America.PS. As for the aesthetics of French women debated here, there are prettier women in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland, but bottomline is, French women do tend to be thinner and dress more stylishly, than American women on the whole. Also they don't feel the need to load themselves with ten pounds of makeup, silicone implants, and hair chemicals. Unfortunately most do use deodorant and shave their armpits these days, thanks to creeping American globalization. But that's a whole other book.
As an English ex-Pat, living in the USA for the past 16 years, I can relate to much of what this book has to say. I went from walking everywhere several times a day...buying groceries daily, cooking home made meals daily, walking to the shops, library, school, doctors office...to a life of driving everywhere and weekly grocery shops and a lot more eating out and fast foods. My weight immediately started to go up after I moved here, and I put on 20 pounds in the first 6 months. I've been struggling with it ever since...not overweight according to my BMI, but just uncomfortable with myself. Add to that 9 years of working night shift as an RN and the amount of convenience foods, processed yuck and being too tired to exercise on my days off (or catching up on lost sleep) and the problem, along with my cholesterol levels, just multiplied. Happily two things have happened that I fully intend to change things: A 'Sprouts' store opened within easy walking distance of my house, and I finally retired from nursing...I finally had the time to walk more AND cook home made meals again...but I still wasn't losing weight, why? Reading this book helped me realise what I was still doing wrong: 1. I was still locked in the 'One Huge Dish Per Meal' mindset, serving a huge bowl of pasta or casserole, or a giant plate loaded with meat, potatoes & veggies at each dinner time, and attempting to compensate by not eating breakfast or even lunch sometimes (then snacking on chocolate whenever I was hungry). 2. I was still thinking of walking as 'exercise'...I would plan on going 'hiking' around the trails near our house, or driving to hike in one of the many beautiful parks here, and dress up in my hiking boots etc., but because that took so much time out of my day it turned out to be a very rare occurrence. I started reading this book about a week ago and have already lost 4 lbs...4 lbs eating breakfast, lunch and 3-course meals for dinner. I'm absolutely amazed. Her advice on eating more courses but much smaller amounts of each course are absolutely spot on. Quality food over quantity. Just go for a walk...no dressing in special clothes, just pop your coat on if needed and go for a stroll in your neighborhood, or to your local shops to browse or buy groceries if they are within walking distance. Use the stairs, not the elevators, park further away from the store and walk...all make perfect sense. And her recipe for Leek Soup as a quick weight loss starter is just a miracle worker...even though I made Leek & Celery Soup, and we are only having it for lunch and sometimes also as an appetizer for our 3-course evening meals, I have seen not only a loss in weight, but I feel so much better. I always felt heavy, bloated and immobile after one of our previous 'One Huge Dish' dinners, but I can eat a 3-course dinner of delectable, quality items and feel wonderful afterwards (and I actually enjoyed preparing 3-course meals...the effort needed burns calories too!). Of course the book has some bad points...there is far too much boasting about Champagne and living the high life that she can with the high salary she earns...there are a lot of things that are not in the daily budget of the average person, but you can modify the general ideas with a bit of creativity to suit your own budget. And despite her reassurances that Working French Women are able to find the time to do all of these things...I take that with a pinch of salt, although I did save time by making multiple servings of desserts and pate's and freezing them for later dinners. I also just purchased a soup machine to help with the complexity of getting an appetizer on the table and having time to sit and enjoy it while still having to cook the main course. Yes, there's such as a thing as a soup machine...they are available on Amazon too :).
I had to buy this book because of the terrible reviews of it that I have read here. Nothing could be that bad, I thought, and if it is, that would be a hoot. I bought it and have thoroughly enjoyed it. It reads just like "French Women Don't Get Facelifts," which I bought and read previously. Yes, the author comes across as snobby towards Americans, and no, the average American woman, especially if she lives in a rural area, does not have access to the foods and opportunities for exercise that New York and Parisian women have, but she does it with humor. Who wants a book that tells us America is the greatest in everything, if we are buying a book about French life? Buy this book and enjoy it!
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