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...great mysteries of nutrition: how the French manage to consume liters of fine wine and beaucoup de bonbons and still stay slim. Author Guiliano, now a dual citizen, claims to have decoded the secret in her surprise best seller, French Women Don't Get Fat(Knopf). Even the current U.S. antagonism toward all things Gallic has not dampened the book's reception. It has gone through six printings and shot to No. 2 on Amazon.com...
...American style of dieting to her liking. Atkins? "For Europeans, it's gross. They can't eat like that. After a few days of not eating fruits and vegetables and not drinking wine or eating pasta ... it's so foreign to us. So unbalanced." But she's not any fonder of other weight-loss regimens. "Basically, diets don't work," she insists. "If they worked, everyone would be thin and healthy...
...argues, is that instead of breaking new intellectual ground, Lévy and his modern peers rework existing ideas to justify media-hyped, crowd-pleasing moralism. "BHL has taken up all the great causes of our time," Cohen writes. "BHL is a bit to literature what Mondavi is to wine." Asked to respond to Cohen's book, Lévy quotes Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran ("I've always asked myself how it is the mere risk of having a biographer doesn't dissuade us from having a life"), then says he's content to let people decide for themselves...
ALCOHOL Use common sense and moderate your intake of beer, wine and liquor. Recent studies support the benefits of red wine for the heart, but only if you drink one to two glasses a day. --By Alice Park
...more than pleasure sans pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us that it is O.K. not to be happy, that sadness makes happiness deeper. As the wine-connoisseur movie Sideways tells us, it is the kiss of decay and mortality that makes grape juice into Pinot Noir. We need art to tell us, as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living...