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Author: Mireille Guiliano
Publisher: Knopf
Dimension: 8.5 x 5.9 x 1.0 inches
Weight: 15.7 ounces.

Vive le difference
I just finished reading this book and it was a joy. Mireille is clearly an intelligent, thoughtful author who offers no quick fixes, no incredible promises, just good, ordinary common sense advice on eating and living a healthy lifestyle. The book was... more

I found this book to be true to life, kindly and helpful
A remembrance of things past.... Okay, bear with me here people, because I can't do my review of this book without first relating to you a true sea story: Many years ago, while serving with the U.S. Navy onboard an aircraft carrier embarked on a deployment... more

More than common sense
Last summer I met a famous French chef who lost 100 pounds he said by eating smaller meals and exercising one hour a day "like a religion." He drank a glass of wine for dinner and sometimes enjoyed bitter chocolate for dessert. That seems to be a French... more

Not Worth The Money
I agree with S. Rua that we women need to enjoy life and not obsess over every detail of food, but did you really need this book to finally convince you of that ?
I have to agree that walking, drinking water, watching what you eat and enjoying... more

Fun and doesn't take food to the American Obsession
I loved this book, it is fun and a delightful read for those of us who are tired of the diet wagon of America. I think the California reviewer is bitter and has lost sight of the fact that women need to enjoy life, not obsess over every detail of food.... more

California Women Don't Get Fat
It makes about as much sense to make such a statement as it does to make the statement that French women don't. As a matter of fact, women from both places do. We are only talking about percentages here. I think it's about 10 or 11 % of the French... more

Je ne sais quoi
French Women Don't Get Fat is an elegantly written (elegant much like the book's sophisticated, successful professional writer) and tantalizing with its simplicity, its smatterings of the French language here or there (giving it that little mysterious... more

Positively Absurd
If I could rate this book lower than a single star, I would. French Woman Don't Get Fat, in my opinion, is written by a self promoting, high income woman who has a very different life from most Americans.

There isn't a SINGLE diet tip... more

Very Overrated!
Save your money and read the Fat Fallacy instead, if you want to really find out how eating the "French way" can make a difference in your life. This book is merely a light read with no real details and mostly full of recipes. You aren't going to read... more

This is a novel NOT a diet book
The idea was great, stop pretending chocolate and carbs don't exist but enjoy them in moderation and in balance with the rest of your meals. The problem is not with the advice in the book, it's with finding the advice in the book. Page after page of stories... more

Eating in a new light
This book has a lot of the same information that we've all been told a million times: eat less, enjoy your food more, etc; however, this book manages to to get that point across in a new way. It makes eating and enjoying food an obvious outcome, and... more

The Book That NEVER Claimed to be a Diet Book!
Although I have not been to France, I went to Italy when I was teenager about 10 years ago. What I observed was that while the general population was NOT skinny, no one was obese either. There were curvy, voluptuous, or just lean. Like most teenagers,... more

Acute observations about the American way of life. . .
In the wake of the recent "obesity crisis," Mireille Guiliano sets out to examine the differences between the eating habits of the French and American women because, she observes, French women do not get fat and American do. Anyone who has visited Europe... more

A little disappointed
Being French, I was really expecting to recognize myself and my family in this book. On the contrary, I felt that, whereas Mireille Giuliano aims at making you feel better, a noble purpose, she fails to avoid stereotypes, sinking happily in them, bathing... more

A nutshell
This book is not worth the money. Here's the bulk of it in a nutshell. Walk everyday. Short walks, long walks, stairs...whatever, just move. Secondly, make what you eat count. Do not eat mindlessly or too much. Eat what you want, only until you are full.... more

Impossible to Review
I have tried six times to describe how worthless this book is. And each time, some overly sensitive complainer has somehow managed to have the French leadership at amazon pull the review. I will try it more simply this time: This book is not good. ... more

Good story but impractical
While the basic advice of "French Women Don't Get Fat" is sound, many of the hints and tips are simply not feasible. I wish I had the time to shop four times a week at an open air market. I wish I had the spare income to exclusively buy heirloom and... more

Not Rocket Science
I have to say I was a bit sceptical about this book after all the negative reviews I had read, but I did enjoy it. I could do without the excessive French phrases, but the premise is sound: don't eat from a package, the word diet is not a verb, and... more

common sense
I must confess the main reason I am writting this review is due to my amazement at some of the comments from other reviewers. To those of you who think all french women have nannies and live a life luxgury I must set the record straight. I lived in... more

French Women Don't Get Fat
This book was soooo disappointing. The author positions herself as a kind of "anti-diet" proponent (as opposed to Atkins and South Beach-type mania), and what is one whole chapter devoted to? None other than a "Leek Soup" recipe that the author recommends... more

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