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French Women DO Get Fat
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Source: Jezebel.com
October 07, 2009
Being in France has made me realize that I hold some incredibly naïve assumptions about French women and weight. In my mind, French women eat Camembert and Nutella and still look cute in leather leggings. In Mireille Guiliano's bestselling French Women Don't Get Fat, she claims that French women don't exercise that much, eat three-course meals, and don't, you know, get fat, which was apparently groundbreaking enough information to make it a bestseller. American women, on the other hand, are told to put down the pints of Chubby Hubby and learn to be a little more French. But French women might not be as zen about their weight as I had thought. According to a study that came out last spring, France has a low ideal weight and that "by far the highest proportion of clinically underweight women in Europe, but only half of them think they are too thin." ...
