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Attention....TWIMC
BTW the author as child always loved America and the English language....so do get anti-French here!

French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure by Mireille Guiliano
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400042127/002-8589087-7300800?v=glance

Excert from the book-
My love affair with America had begun with my love of the English language; we met at the lyce (junior high and high school) when I turned eleven. English was my favorite class after French literature, and I simply adored my English teacher. He had never been abroad but spoke English without a French accent or even a British one...
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From a viewer reply to the book...
Let me tell you my own experience eating the French way. I went to France a few years ago for about three weeks. I stayed in Paris, and then in Chartres. I could only afford to eat in little cafes and bistros, but I vowed to eat only my favorite foods and go back only to restuarants that were to die for. I ate my favorites - chocolate made fresh every day, chocolate mousse, home made ice cream, omelettes, pizza with goat cheese and cream sauce, quiche of every kind - you name it I ate it. I also had a glass of wine with dinner every night. We snacked almost all day in between meals on fresh fruit. All of the food was fresh - no chemical additives and nothing packed in pastic bags. We also walked every morning before breakfast and every day after lunch.

When I got home and got on the scale I was shocked to see I had lost 25 pounds, and two dress sizes. I had to laugh because we complained the first few days about how long it took us to get served, and how long each meal took. After the second day we were so into really tasting the food we shared, we shut up and stopped hurrying through each meal.

It took less than a week for me to get back into my harried life - eating on the run, shoving food in my mouth while I talked on a conference call and simultaneously completed and emailed reports. I was back to the fast lane and fast food take out.

When I got this book it took me back to France, and back to why the French have less than an 11% obesity rate (and ours is 30% and climbing.) The French simply eat the freshest food in season, they enjoy what they eat and they walk every where!

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Person thought
This reminds me when I attended Michigan State for a summer Music camp I had 3 squares of in our dorm cafeteria and I lost weight, because the food was fresh and it was an agriculture school!

I was so surprised